Danek Duvall wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:11:29PM +0800, Rick Ju wrote: > >> With wide char supported, there is only libncursesw.so instead of >> libncurses.so. > > I think the intent was that you'd deliver both libraries. However, it > might be interesting to investigate building with wide character support, > but calling the library libncurses. I believe that the reason there are > two libraries, normally, is because the two are binary incompatible, the > non-wide-char variant has a long history, and the author doesn't want to > break incompatibility.
That's how it's "usually done". The wide-char version supports non-wide-chars just fine (the inverse is however not true). So, installing the lib*.w.so libraries as lib*.so works. The only detail to keep in mind is that the Makefiles will set by default the SONAME to lib*w.so, so patches are needed for the Makefiles for the wide-char versions to change the SONAMEs to the corresponding lib*.so. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
