[Buildroot] Ncurses wide support

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 15 12:04:30 UTC 2013


Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:02:11 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> On 10/15/2013 08:59 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> 
> > ncurses is crap :)
> > 
> > A possible solution would be to have a package/ncursesw/ in Buildroot,
> > that does the same thing as package/ncurses/, but builds the ncursesw
> > library. This way, packages who want one or the other variant of the
> > library can have proper dependencies.
> 
> But that would require auditing which packages want/benefit from the
> wide version and add some workarounds about that.

For those who "want" ncursesw, the autobuilders will notice. For those
who would "benefit", then it can just be progressively improved as
users notice such cases.

Thomas
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