Re: curses and terminfo changes

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

On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 02:25:48PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, Roy Marples wrote:
> >Log Message:
> >Move longname(3) from curses to terminfo, pre-cursor to fix PR/43386.
> 
> You have made a lot of changes recently.  What are you doing about
> compatibility for programs linked against old versions of the
> libraries but running with new versions of the libraries?

libcurses depends on libterminfo, so this works fine as long as you
update both libraries together.

Joerg