[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?
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Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar
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