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 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:31:51 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: two differents version of unctrl.h, one in cygwin-1.1.7 and one in ncurses-5.2 Message-ID: <20010116143151.B8026@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010116123004.H2692@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:14:12PM -0600 On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:14:12PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote: >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. Looking at newlib's version, I wonder if it is even usable in cygwin. It seems to rely on a global variable that doesn't seem to be exported by the DLL. So, maybe the header file should be deleted in favor of ncurses. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple