Re: The GEL lib (NILS read this!)

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

I strongly agree. Debian uses only ncurses - a termcap-compat library is
avialable for those who want to run binary termcap applications. ncurses
is definately the way to go.

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 georgesk@boltz.univ-littoral.fr wrote:

> 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.
> 
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