Re: libncurses (due to lynx2-8-4.pre2)

["Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>]

Lynx should check for the NCURSES_VERSION #define to determine
whether or not ncurses is installed as libcurses.  If it
doesn't, it is broken and you should complain to its author.

 - todd

In message <200107061952.f66Jqjn18660@ecce.homeip.net>
	so spake Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos):

> Hello,
> I noticed that the new curses library is referred to as
> libcurses.so.8.0, and not, as in e.g. linux, libncurses.
> 
> In order to compile lynx2-8-4pre2 successfully I have made
> a symbolic link from libncurses.so.8.0 to libcurses.so.8.0
> and now am asking me whether this is the correct solution.
> 
> Lynx has support for four different flavours,
>  none, slang, curses (old) and ncurses.
> 
> So I cannot simply use curses because that would use the older
> library functions.
> 
> As to now it works quite well, but I'd like to hear some
> experts' opinion on this.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -mirabilos
> -- 
> typed manually in sendmail