Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/10/14:46:27
ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling
libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus. It is often used
instead of termcap.
This is a test release, so use the "Exp:" radio button on setup. Also,
wait a few hours before downloading ncurses-demo. There was a packaging
bug and I slipstreamed a correction, so it needs to propagate to the
mirrors. (but the other binary packages are fine on the mirrors, now).
CHANGES
* updated to 5.4 release, patchlevel 20041009
* moved test programs in the -demo package from
/usr/bin/ncurses-test-dll to /usr/lib/ncurses/test/, per official policy.
* build using libtool (these contributions were spearheaded by Nicholas
Wourms over a year ago; Thanks, Nick!) For an explanation of the delay,
see the NOTES section, below.
* DLL for C++ interface now provided (again).
* version number bump on the libraries:
We had: libncurses7 package contained
/usr/bin/cygncurses7.dll
/usr/bin/cygpanel7.dll
/usr/bin/cygmenu7.dll
/usr/bin/cygform7.dll
<no c++ dll>
New package libncurses8 contains
/usr/bin/cygncurses-8.dll
/usr/bin/cygpanel-8.dll
/usr/bin/cygmenu-8.dll
/usr/bin/cygform-8.dll
/usr/bin/cygncurses++-8.dll
There is actually NO ABI change here. The only reason the dll numbers
(and package name) was version-bumped was because the switch to using
libtool means that the DLLs are named
"cygfoo-N.dll" instead of "cygfooN.dll"
Even if I left "N" the same, what would I call the new package?
libncurses_7 (since libncurses7 alread contains the non-libtool-built
versions of the DLLs, from the 5.3-4 release)?
I figured it was cleaner just to bump the DLL and package numbers from 7
to 8, so that at least the package names would be consistent:
libncurses7
libncurses8
--
Charles Wilson
ncurses volunteer maintainer for cygwin
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NOTES:
* In the 5.3-4 release (patchlevel 20040726), a lot of support for
building shared libs using libtool was added ( !!!! THANK YOU Nicholas
Wourms !!!! ). Unfortunately, I was not able to actually RELEASE the
libtool-built ncurses at that time, for the reasons detailed below:
1) Requires Yet Another DLL rename. cygncurses7.dll -->
cygncurses-5.dll (or some other number; the ncurses maintainer
does not use the same variable to set DLL versions when
building non-libtool and when building libtool). But simply
the '-' is problematic, even if I make both numerals '7'.
Libtool insists on the '-'. So, I figured I'd spare
everybody another version split -- especially as so many
packages which depend on ncurses have just been rebuilt
against 5.3-4/1.5.3+; to bump the version again so soon
would require all of those to be rebuilt, which is really
unnecessary at this time.
<UPDATE>: bit the bullet, and reved the DLL number to "8". It's
been a year, after all.
2) The libtool wrapper I released recently (with the
"WANT_LIBTOOL_VER" environment variable) are *almost* right.
But not quite. So, I need to release another set of wrappers
before using them to build one of my maintained packages.
<UPDATE>: Actually, I forgot about this issue; these wrappers are
STILL not right, but I finessed it this time.
3) libtool itself has a bug with multilanguage support and
relinking. The '--tag=<language>' is required...but libtool
doesn't store the tag info in the uninstalled .la file. So,
when installing, libtool tries to relink the shared library,
but without the --tag=CXX flag. This, of course, fails.
I've reported this to the libtool developers, and provided
a simpler testcase, but no joy yet.
<UPDATE>: The preceeding was written in July 2003. Presently,
ncurses + libtool-1.5.10 works fine.
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