[oi-dev] readline and termcap question

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hello.
Our current libreadline in /hipster is not linked to libtermcap.so. This 
causes issues when applications don't add "-ltermcap" linker flag.
We have the following patch 
https://hg.openindiana.org/sustaining/oi_151a/sfw-gate/rev/1d4f978df141 
applied in /dev.

But issue is that we already have in /hipster applications that are 
linked to readline and ncurses - like some python components.
What is the correct way here? Trying to recompile affected components 
with curses instead of ncurses or explicitly add "-ltermcap" flag to 
application which uses readline if it doesn't do it itself?

Solaris 11 seems to opted for the second path (adding -ltermcap flags), 
OI-dev - for the first (linking readline to libtermcap.

The only package which links both readline and ncurses I'm aware about 
is python2.6 (/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload/64/_curses.so).  What do 
you think? Perhaps, just apply this patch and try to recompile python 
with curses modules curses instead of ncurses?
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Computer Center of Southern Federal University