[Buildroot] Ncurses wide support

Ezequiel García ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar
Tue Oct 15 10:09:51 UTC 2013


Currently Buildroot support building the non-wide (non-unicode) ncurses library.

While ncurses support an easy way to enable wide support with a configure option
(--enable-widec), this option builds *only* the wide-enabled library
(aka libncursesw)
and not the vanilla one.

In other words, it's not possible to build both at the same time.

By looking at my Gentoo ebuild -which is also source based- it seems
they solve this by
simply building ncurses twice: first the vanilla, and then (if unicode
is enabled) the
wide-enabled one.

Questions that arise:

1. Does Buildroot support something like this?

2. Should we patch ncurses configure to change this behavior?
(not really a fun solution, given this is an upstream choice)

3. Do we even care?
-- 
Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar



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