Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Authentication-Warning: hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu: khan owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:14:12 -0600 (CST) From: Mumit Khan To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: two differents version of unctrl.h, one in cygwin-1.1.7 and one in ncurses-5.2 In-Reply-To: <20010116123004.H2692@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: > In this case, I'm not sure exactly why newlib has a unctrl.h file, though. > I'm willing to use the ncurses version instead if that is the consensus. > The ncurses layout on my linux system seems to be different than cygwin > though so I don't see a clear correspondence. Newlib has a bunch of stuff thrown in that may be there just for historical reasons, or to support certain targets. I don't see any other reason for newlib to contain unctrl. I have yet to see a non- curses program include unctrl.h, but of course someone must've done it for it to be included in newlib. Is there a problem in ncurses one overwriting the newlib one? I can't see it offhand, but that's untested. Linux does use a slightly different layout (and it varies among the various flavors of Linux!), and a lot of that has to do with history as well. Historically, all the ncurses includes only went to $prefix/include/ncurses/; later on these include files were also symlink'd in $prefix/include directory so that configuration utilities could find curses.h without having to look in ncurses/curses.h. At least true for a few of the more prevalent Linux distributions. If there's a difference in Linux layout and what ncurses does out of the box, I'd be more comfortable in using a ncurses-directed layout simply to avoid gratuitous incompatibility. Lots of other systems use ncurses as well, and configuration utilities have no problem finding the right headers/libs. Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple