Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:08:07 +0100 From: Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 821aa63a0940 - main - ncurses: only keep the version with widechar support Message-ID: <YAhxh1PiXBsan2bi@lion.0xfce3.net> In-Reply-To: <202101051302.105D24lW041218@gitrepo.freebsd.org> References: <202101051302.105D24lW041218@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 01:02:04PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > The branch main has been updated by bapt: > > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=821aa63a09402935da0a73abf20ba0441562aa07 > > commit 821aa63a09402935da0a73abf20ba0441562aa07 > Author: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> > AuthorDate: 2021-01-04 16:29:40 +0000 > Commit: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> > CommitDate: 2021-01-05 13:01:32 +0000 > > ncurses: only keep the version with widechar support > > Only keep the widechar version of ncurses as libncursesw.so.9 > > Keep the old name to avoid breaking the ABI compatibility (the non > widechar version libncurses.so.9 is not binary compatible with > libncursesw.so.9) since all ports and base are already only linking > against the widechar version we can simply remove libncurses.so.9 > > Since the .9 version only lived in the dev branch and never ended in a > release, it is simply removed and not added to any binary compat > package. > > Add symlinks to keep build time compatibility for anyone linking against > -lncurses Hi Baptiste, thanks for the cleanup. It would be nice if you could send a HEADS UP to current@ before such changes. This change rendered my login shell on arm64 useless and it took me about 8 hours on a saturday to get the shell working againg, by using a FreeBSD livesystem, booted on my MacBook, while hurderling with pwd_mkdb(8). --Gordon
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