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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:17:27 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: "Dr. Volker Zell" <Dr DOT Volker DOT Zell AT oracle DOT com>
CC: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: two differents version of unctrl.h, one in cygwin-1.1.7 and one in  
 ncurses-5.2
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"Dr. Volker Zell" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com> writes:
> 
>     Earnie> Charles Wilson wrote:
>     >>
>     >> I'll release a new ncurses where the ncurses version of unctrl.h is
>     >> renamed 'nunctrl.h' and change all internal ncurses references to point
>     >> to the new file.  But I can't guarantee any time frame on that.
>     >>
> 
>     Earnie> I don't know about the rest of this list but I would prefer it be
>     Earnie> /usr/include/ncurses/unctrl.h.  It is then obvious as to what it is
>     Earnie> for.  If you name it nunctrl.h then it won't be that obvious.
> 
> I agree with Earnie. But then the interdependencies of the ncurses header files have to be solved.
> Actually the Xemacs configure script checks for curses.h and term.h in /usr/include/ncurses.
> And there is already another name collision in the ncurses package with the termcap package (termcap.h).
> 

Actually, ncurses has a "headers.sh" script that automatically munges
all the header files during the install process.  This script "fixes up"
everything so that the interdependencies are solved.

--Chuck

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