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From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ncurses, libncurses7, libncurses-devel, ncurses-demo -5.3-4
 [Requires cygwin-1.5.3+]
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Message-Id: <20030903051357.781C332A822@redhat.com>
Date: Wed,  3 Sep 2003 01:13:57 -0400 (EDT)

ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling 
libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus.  It is often used 
instead of termcap.

This release is built against the cygwin-1.5.x kernel; it will not work 
with 1.3.22.

CHANGES

* compiled against the 1.5.2 kernel

* minor bugfix to the postinstall script

* Fixed a number of minor packaging errors (all readmes +were+ in
   ncurses- and not split among the tarballs as the were intended)

* updated to a recent (20030802) official patchlevel -- most of
   the earlier cygwin-specific patches have been folded in to
   those official patchlevels.  However...

* Added a lot of support for building shared libs using libtool
   ( !!!!  THANK YOU Nicholas Wourms  !!!! ).  Unfortunately, I
   was not able to actually RELEASE the libtool-built ncurses,
   for the reasons detailed in the NOTES section, below.

-- 
Charles Wilson
ncurses volunteer maintainer for cygwin

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.

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NOTES:

* Added a lot of support for building shared libs using libtool
   ( !!!!  THANK YOU Nicholas Wourms  !!!! ).  Unfortunately, I
   was not able to actually RELEASE the libtool-built ncurses,
   for the reasons detailed below:

    1) Requires Yet Another DLL rename.  cygncurses7.dll -->
       cygncurses-5.dll (or some other number; the ncurses maintainer
       does not use the same variable to set DLL versions when
       building non-libtool and when building libtool).  But simply
       the '-' is problematic, even if I make both numerals '7'.
       Libtool insists on the '-'.  So, I figured I'd spare
       everybody another version split -- especially as so many
       packages which depend on ncurses have just been rebuilt
       against 5.3-4/1.5.3+; to bump the version again so soon
       would require all of those to be rebuilt, which is really
       unnecessary at this time.

    2) The libtool wrapper I released recently (with the
       "WANT_LIBTOOL_VER" environment variable) are *almost* right.
       But not quite.  So, I need to release another set of wrappers
       before using them to build one of my maintained packages.

    3) libtool itself has a bug with multilanguage support and
       relinking.  The '--tag=<language>' is required...but libtool
       doesn't store the tag info in the uninstalled .la file.  So,
       when installing, libtool tries to relink the shared library,
       but without the --tag=CXX flag.  This, of course, fails.
       I've reported this to the libtool developers, and provided
       a simpler testcase, but no joy yet.

So, *EVENTUALLY* I'll move ncurses to use libtool, but not just yet. 
However, my investigations led to a whole new set of patches, derived 
from Nicholas's contributions, that should -- once libtool-wrapper and 
libtool itself are fixed -- allow an immediate and painless (for me, ?) 
switchover to libtool-based builds.


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