[Pkg-gpm-devel] Bug#274673: libgpmg1: libgpm should not depend upon libncurses

[Peter Samuelson]

--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline


[Thomas Dickey]
> libgpm's curses wrapper links to ncurses (uses wgetch).  That makes a
> circular dependency which makes it hard to build an ncurses that uses
> libgpm.

So you can have libgpm with ncurses support, or ncurses with libgpm
support, but it's tricky to try and have both.

Sounds like a good case to disable -lncurses in libgpm.

Peter

--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: Digital signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFBZH19Xk7sIRPQRh0RAqCJAJ9pKWisZlCKi+LkJVfifg4l4S6O7ACg0noO
iLmMCQMwcsODTw96H570BMs=
=FtEP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--