Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:55:09 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Stefan Lambrev" <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: ncurses 5.6 update Message-ID: <6eb82e0703121055p47ac1eb2k2368ec1f03870dd5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45F59281.60907@sun-fish.com> References: <6eb82e0703110556x229e8fd8pcf6f8979be046d8f@mail.gmail.com> <45F5628F.2080300@sun-fish.com> <6eb82e0703120945w2d9d99ccj8aff7764c1e72acc@mail.gmail.com> <45F59281.60907@sun-fish.com>
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On 3/13/07, Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Rong-en Fan wrote: > > On 3/12/07, Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@sun-fish.com> wrote: > >> Rong-en Fan wrote: > >> > Hi folks, > >> > > >> > ncurses in 6.x is pretty old. We have update-to-date ncurses in 7.x > >> > with wide character support now. The patch at > >> > > >> > > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ncursesw-5.6-all-fbsd6-20070310.diff.gz > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > gives you ncurses 5.6 and wide character support in 6.x. Please > >> > apply with 'patch -p0' under /usr/src. > >> > > >> > For more information, please visit > >> > > >> > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ > >> > > >> > You can also find individual patches, say ncurses update and wide > >> > character support, there. > >> > > >> > Feedbacks and suggestions are welcome. > >> > > >> > P.S. Due to some lib32 issues, the patch above contains changes > >> > made by ru@ recently for src/Makefile.inc1. > >> make installworld failed: > >> > >> cd /usr/src; /usr/obj/usr/src/make.amd64/make -f Makefile.inc1 install32 > >> mkdir -p /usr/lib32 # XXX add to mtree > > [...] > > > > Sorry about this. I messed up the lib32 changes in the all-in-one patch. > > Could you please use this one instead? > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~rafan/ncurses/ncursesw-5.6-all-fbsd6-20070312.diff.gz > > > > This works for me (at least make buildworld && make installworld > finished without problems). Thanks for testing. > Should I recompile and the kernel again or the patch is only in contrib ? :) No you don't. Regards, Rong-En Fan
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