Bug#469259: Build with ncursesw

2008-03-28 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote: Hi Alpine does not build-depend on libncursesw5-dev, which means that while you can read exotic characters, you cannot write them without messing up the terminal. I have no need for this myself but

Bug#469259: Build with ncursesw

2008-03-28 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote: I had to edit configure.ac to use -lncursesw, then it configured and built fine, but linking failed: gah, that was due to running autoreconf by hand.. Without that it built fine. t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#469259: Build with ncursesw

2008-03-28 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote: Hi Alpine does not build-depend on libncursesw5-dev, which means that while you can read exotic characters, you cannot write them without messing up the

Bug#469259: Build with ncursesw

2008-03-28 Thread Timo Aaltonen
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote: Hi Alpine does not build-depend on libncursesw5-dev, which means that while you can read exotic characters,

Bug#469259: [Alpine-info] Re: Bug#469259: Build with ncursesw

2008-03-28 Thread Steve Hubert
No reply.. Right. Inputting Résumé seems to work fine for me without building with ncursesw. What doesn't work for you that needs it? -- Asheesh. I'm not sure what alpine gets from libcurses. We use escape sequences from terminfo/termcap to move the cursor around and that's pretty much

Bug#469259: Build with ncursesw

2008-03-04 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Package: alpine Version: 1.0+dfsg-3 Severity: normal Hi Alpine does not build-depend on libncursesw5-dev, which means that while you can read exotic characters, you cannot write them without messing up the terminal. I have no need for this myself but got a request about it, and

Bug#469259: Build with ncursesw

2008-03-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Timo Aaltonen wrote: Hi Alpine does not build-depend on libncursesw5-dev, which means that while you can read exotic characters, you cannot write them without messing up the terminal. I have no need for this myself but got a request about it, and since it seems