Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:19:14 +0800 From: Cheng-Lung Sung <clsung@tw.freebsd.org> To: Rong-En Fan <rafan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-python@freebsd.org Subject: Re: option to enable ncursesw in lang/python25 Message-ID: <20080413031914.GA92655@FreeBSD.csie.nctu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <20080411095624.GM16394@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw> References: <20080411095624.GM16394@svm.csie.ntu.edu.tw>
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Hi,
If user enable the ncursesw opt, how many py- ports will be broken?
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:56:24PM +0800, Rong-En Fan wrote:
> Currently, due to readline module links against libreadline.so
> which links libncurses.so. If python is compiled to use ncursesw,
> when importing readline module, it brings *both* ncurses and
> ncursesw. This may cause problems, so that why we disable linking
> against ncursesw in files/patch-setup.py.
>
> However, this disables the ability to use ncursesw in some python
> scripts. Also, it seems that other distributions, like Debian,
> actually links to ncursesw and I'm not aware of any issues with
> that.
>
> So, bottom line is we add an option to lang/python25, so that
> for users want to use ncursesw, they can enable. In the future,
> if we solve the readline issue, we should make this as default.
>
> Any suggestions?
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Alan Cheng-Lung Sung - clsung@
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