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

[Rick Ju]

Hi,

Danek Duvall wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Is there any ARC policy about this?  There are no files delivered 
/usr/gnu/include ever before.

> 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.
>>     
>
>   
It should be /usr/gnu/lib. We changed the target directory several 
times. This place should be corrected.
> 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.
>
>   
Maybe you are right.  How about adding a link 
/usr/bin/ncurses5-config->/usr/gnu/bin/ncurses5-config?

> Thanks,
> Danek
>