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Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> A few issues with ncurses-config:
> 
> 1) The fact that there have been several (Cygwin-specific) ABI bumps to 
> libncurses during the 5.x cycle (now at 9) doesn't change the fact that
> the API is still version 5, and other packages look for the script to be
> named ncurses5-config.
> 
> 2) ncurses5-config should be part of the libncurses-devel package.

Fixed (for 1.7, in 5.7-15). Thanks for the report.

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Chuck

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