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On 12/29/2010 2:21 PM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote:

> once that is working, I will promote this package to current.  Use of
> this update requires libgcc1 and libncurses10 (setup.exe doesn't make it

Any chance you could build libreadline to use the wide version of the
ncurses library? If you include the correct headers
(-I/usr/include/ncursesw instead of -I/usr/include/ncurses) and link to
the correct import library (-L/usr/lib/ncursesw instead of
-L/usr/lib/ncurses), it should Just Work(tm).  Because, for the last
year or so, you sorta have to explicitly specify -I and -L options even
for "regular" ncurses during configury, this ought to require only a
simple change to your existing build script...

--
Chuck

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