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Re: ncurses 5.9

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JKB wrote:
> 	Hello,
>
> 	I'm trying to build ncurses 5.9. With configure script or
> 	Makefile.os2, I can build a ncurse.a, but this library is not
> 	usable. For example, tgetent() returns an error as terminal is not
> 	known. What is my mistake ? On Unix, ncurses tries to open /dev/tty*
> 	and I don't know how ncurses works on eCS.
>
> 	Any idea ?
>

IIRC ncurses only works out of the box with EMX and perhaps not even 
that anymore, and I'd guess you're using klibc. Perhaps download 
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/util/ncurses-5.6.zip which I 
believe was compiled with klibc and look at the patches that were applied.
Dave

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ncurses 5.9 JKB <jkb@koenigsberg.invalid> - 2011-10-11 21:45 +0000
  Re: ncurses 5.9 Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-10-11 17:17 -0700
    Re: ncurses 5.9 JKB <jkb@koenigsberg.invalid> - 2011-10-12 08:05 +0000
  Re: ncurses 5.9 Marty <net@comcast.martyamodeo> - 2012-01-10 08:38 -0800
    Re: ncurses 5.9 JKB <jkb@koenigsberg.invalid> - 2012-01-10 16:41 +0000
      Re: ncurses 5.9 KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2012-01-11 14:27 +0900
        Re: ncurses 5.9 JKB <jkb@koenigsberg.invalid> - 2012-01-11 08:51 +0000
          Re: ncurses 5.9 KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2012-01-11 21:35 +0900
            Re: ncurses 5.9 JKB <jkb@koenigsberg.invalid> - 2012-01-20 12:44 +0000
              Re: ncurses 5.9 KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2012-01-26 19:28 +0900

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