Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:35:16 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: r358062(ncurses) breaks installed ports, howto check? Message-ID: <20200224233516.z6ateiibdm4hk36s@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net> In-Reply-To: <20200224232530.2ehw6l4blvqkgbd4@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net> References: <20200224202021.65ca7f64@thor.intern.walstatt.dynvpn.de> <20200225.043711.677660873587364878.yasu@utahime.org> <20200224232530.2ehw6l4blvqkgbd4@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 06:25:30PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 04:37:11AM +0900, Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote: > > From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org> > > Subject: r358062(ncurses) breaks installed ports, howto check? > > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 20:19:59 +0100 > > > > > After r358062, many installed ports do not work anymore on several running systems (CURRENT). > > > /usr/src/UPDATING states one should reinstall all ncurses depending ports, but no hint is > > > given! Can someone mitigate this lack of information? Is there a simple way to check what > > > ports installed on a system rely on ncurses provided by the system? > > > > Check thread starting with following message. > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2020-February/117710.html > > That's a start, but it gives an overly-broad approach, saying that > anything linked to the ncurses library has to be recompiled. > > The ABI change is just to the (upper-level) curses interface. > Most of the programs you'll have in ports use the (lower-level) termcap > or terminfo interfaces. > > For example gettext uses terminfo (not curses). > > Curses applications use initscr or newterm (nm helps). > I have a script which uses nm to tell me which interface is used. > > Actually, in my own ports, I don't see any which would be affected, > since all of the curses applications are the utilities for ncurses > (or for my testing of ncurses). > > Here's an example of what it tells me > (n5==ncurses5, tc=termcap, ti=terminfo): > > ti bison > n5*+ti captoinfo > n5*+ti captoinfo6 > n5*+ti clear > n5*+ti clear6 > n5+tc ded > n5+ti dialog4ports actually this one isn't one of mine (needs to be recompiled) But for the rest - recompiling would be a waste of time. -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EABECAB0WIQTFIEjAwHSP7iJ9R6JwI1Pg9+SO2wUCXlRdtAAKCRBwI1Pg9+SO 22OaAKCA8JchaEl/kxMQjEpONXB/DR/BTACg2hWHtv/XjosJr6C/Lik3Iw855u8= =vN5T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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