Re: The GEL lib (NILS read this!)

[georgesk@boltz.univ-littoral.fr]

Nils Barth writes:
 > Thus spake George:
 > > weird ... do you know which library has tgetent?  (try "nm libblah.a | grep
 > > tgetent")
 > 
 > er, what should I put in for ``libblah.a''?
 > when I tried grep * -ire tgetent, it showed up in:
 > configure.in
 > genius/genius.c

I recently discussed with Hilaire about tgetent. genius.c is now
linked with the old libtermcap library, which is announced as
obsolete.

The new way to use the same functionality is to use the library
libncurses which is actively maintained.

the following changes are efficient :

add the lines 

#include <curses.h>
#include <term.h>

in genius/genius.c instead of #include <termcap.h>

link against -lcurses instead of -ltermcap.

the configure script needs no more testing the presence of libtermcap,
but the presence of libncurses.

just my 2 c.

--
Georges Khaznadar.