Subject: Re: linking against ncurses
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/15/2002 14:40:34
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Hanspeter Roth wrote:

>   On Jun 14 at 18:48, Frederick Bruckman spoke:
> > What functionality does ncurses provide that NetBSD 1.5.3 curses does
> > not?
>
> I don't know. I'm just trying. I'm running 1.5.2.
> Curses seems to ignore changes in the window size of xterm.
> Ncurses seems to honor it, at least after Ctrl-L.
> On FreeBsd I can have a white background with `default' when mutt is
> linked against ncurses. On NetBsd mutt claims `default' to be unknown.

OK. I've added a MUTT_USE_NCURSES hook to the package, to remove
temptation for folks to muck with the pkgsrc internals. The end result
is functionally equivalent to the package you've already built with
setting USE_NCURSES=yes, so you needn't bother to rebuild.

Frederick