Re: curses vs ncurses

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 04:59:52PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Given
> 
>   .include "../../mk/curses.buildlink3.mk"
> 
> # CURSES_DEFAULT
> #       This value represents the type of curses we wish to use on the
> #       system.  Setting this to "curses" means that the system curses
> #       implementation is fine.
> #
> #       Possible: curses, ncurses, ncursesw, pdcurses
> #       Default: (depends)
> 
> 
> on NetBSD-current/amd64, I would have guessed "curses", yet I see
> 
> $ make show-var VARNAME=CURSES_DEFAULT
> ncurses
> 
> Is there something wrong with -current libcurses? Or?

We normally pretend that nbcurses is ncurses.

Joerg