[csw-maintainers] New in testing/: ncurses 5.7

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Wed Jan 7 23:47:06 CET 2009


Hi Phil,

Am 02.01.2009 um 19:55 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:25:45PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> I finally managed to make a current ncurses 5.7 with full
>> 64 bit for Sparc and x86. The legacy versions of the shared
>> libraries which used to be in the previous package doesn't
>> seemed to be used, so I dropped them. Feel free to give it
>> a try, after release we can go on adding amd64 support to
>> all the dependencies.
>
> please test/fix the xterm issues on.. x86, i think it was?

After reading the bug report I get the impression that the
Solaris implementation of xterm is missing the necessary
control character support. Modifying the xterm spec would
be bad, as http://opencsw.org/packages/xterm supports the
sequence.

Otherwise the package looks good now for me.


Best regards

   -- Dago



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