ncurses for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/524 FastTrack timeout 08/22/2008]

[Danek Duvall]

Hi.  Mike asked me about the way that ncurses was delivering onto the
system, and mentioned that while the headers were being delivered into
/usr/include, the libraries were being delivered into /usr/gnu/lib.  That
sounded odd to me, so I came back and checked, and, unfortunately, the spec
is conflicted over this.

In the text,

>      Because most the binaries and libraries use same name with SVR4 curses,
>      we ship the binaries in /usr/gnu/bin and the libraries in
>      /usr/lib/libncurses.

you say the libraries go in /usr/lib, while in the interface table,

>                 /usr/gnu/lib/libncurses.so.5
>                 /usr/gnu/lib/libform.so.5
>                 /usr/gnu/lib/libmenu.so.5
>                 /usr/gnu/lib/libpanel.so.5
>                                      Uncommitted      Supporting libraries  

you say they go in /usr/gnu/lib.

I'm sorry for not noticing that when the case was still running, but it'd
be good to have some clarification on the issue.

>                 /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h

I'll also note that the build 100 delivery appears to put the header files
directly in /usr/include, not in /usr/include/ncurses, which means they
overwrite files already delivered in SUNWhea, through the OS/Net
consolidation.

>                 /usr/gnu/bin/ncurses5-config
>                                       Uncommitted      CLI binaries.

And while I'm here and thinking about these things (sorry), this probably
ought to go in /usr/bin so that it can be found, even though the curses
libs are buried out of the way.

Thanks,
Danek