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Re: RFC: Cygwin 64 bit?
On 29 June 2011 01:52, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 19:58 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> If you can copy cygncursesw* onto cygncurses* without breaking anything,
>> then I can make this happen without too much trouble.
>>
>> If you can't, then...the only way to do it would be Yet Another DLL
>> Version Bump, and then we slowly wait for folks to undo their existing
>> -I/usr/include/ncursesw stuff...
>>
>> The reason we currently have two, is simply historical hesitation on my
>> part -- I didn't want to "break" existing (narrow) apps, and just wasn't
>> sure we could deploy ncursesw as THE ncurses. ÂNow, I'm less worried,
>> but we (are/might be) a little bit stuck.
>
> The solution is *much* simpler than that:
>
> 1) Build ncurses *once* with wide char support.
>
> 2) Make sure the libncurses-devel package provides symlinks for the
> w-less names:
> Â - libncurses.{a,dll.a,la} -> libncursesw.{a,dll.a,la}
> Â - /usr/include/ncurses -> /usr/include/ncursesw)
> The headers should also be symlinked/copied into /usr/include, as it
> used to be.
>
> 3) Obsolete the following packages:
> Â - libncursesw-devel -> libncurses-devel
> Â - ncursesw -> ncurses
> Â - ncursesw-demo -> ncurses-demo
> Â - libncurses10 (until dependent packages are rebuilt)
Separate thread, please.
Andy