Re: [Firebird-devel] Does Firebird 4 Beta 2 really need libncurses6?

2020-06-01 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel

On 2020-05-30 00:51, Tony Whyman wrote:

On 29/05/2020 14:33, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:

On 29.05.2020 16:22, Tony Whyman wrote:
Just tried to check out Beta 2 on Linux Mint 19.3 (= ubuntu bionic 
18.04) and found that the binaries have been compiled to use 
libncurses6. Ubuntu 18.04 uses libncurses5. You need ubuntu 19.10 if 
you don't want to go through the bother of backporting libncurses6.


By contrast the most recent daily snapshot build has been compiled 
with libncurses5.


Unless there is something really necessary that only libncurses6 
provides (and which doesn't affect the snapshot build), this is 
going to limit the acceptability of Firebird 4. It would be good 
idea to re-issue the binaries using the same compilation environment 
as the snapshot builds.


Sorry - but sooner of all that means we need to upgrade snapshot 
build env. We are going to make new version support first of all new 
distros.



Is that really true? If you look at

https://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=libncurses&searchon=names&subword=1&version=breezy&release=all 



libncurses5 is supported in the latest Ubuntu releases. I would have 
thought that while the packages built for a specific OS should use the 
latest libraries, the general purpose downloads should be conservative 
in their choice of support packages so that they work on the widest 
range of systems.




Somewhy everyone is missing libtommath.0 ...




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Re: [Firebird-devel] Does Firebird 4 Beta 2 really need libncurses6?

2020-05-29 Thread Tony Whyman

On 29/05/2020 14:33, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:

On 29.05.2020 16:22, Tony Whyman wrote:
Just tried to check out Beta 2 on Linux Mint 19.3 (= ubuntu bionic 
18.04) and found that the binaries have been compiled to use 
libncurses6. Ubuntu 18.04 uses libncurses5. You need ubuntu 19.10 if 
you don't want to go through the bother of backporting libncurses6.


By contrast the most recent daily snapshot build has been compiled 
with libncurses5.


Unless there is something really necessary that only libncurses6 
provides (and which doesn't affect the snapshot build), this is going 
to limit the acceptability of Firebird 4. It would be good idea to 
re-issue the binaries using the same compilation environment as the 
snapshot builds.


Sorry - but sooner of all that means we need to upgrade snapshot build 
env. We are going to make new version support first of all new distros.



Is that really true? If you look at

https://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=libncurses&searchon=names&subword=1&version=breezy&release=all

libncurses5 is supported in the latest Ubuntu releases. I would have 
thought that while the packages built for a specific OS should use the 
latest libraries, the general purpose downloads should be conservative 
in their choice of support packages so that they work on the widest 
range of systems.






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Re: [Firebird-devel] Does Firebird 4 Beta 2 really need libncurses6?

2020-05-29 Thread Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel

On 29.05.2020 16:22, Tony Whyman wrote:
Just tried to check out Beta 2 on Linux Mint 19.3 (= ubuntu bionic 
18.04) and found that the binaries have been compiled to use 
libncurses6. Ubuntu 18.04 uses libncurses5. You need ubuntu 19.10 if 
you don't want to go through the bother of backporting libncurses6.


By contrast the most recent daily snapshot build has been compiled 
with libncurses5.


Unless there is something really necessary that only libncurses6 
provides (and which doesn't affect the snapshot build), this is going 
to limit the acceptability of Firebird 4. It would be good idea to 
re-issue the binaries using the same compilation environment as the 
snapshot builds.


Sorry - but sooner of all that means we need to upgrade snapshot build 
env. We are going to make new version support first of all new distros.





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[Firebird-devel] Does Firebird 4 Beta 2 really need libncurses6?

2020-05-29 Thread Tony Whyman
Just tried to check out Beta 2 on Linux Mint 19.3 (= ubuntu bionic 
18.04) and found that the binaries have been compiled to use 
libncurses6. Ubuntu 18.04 uses libncurses5. You need ubuntu 19.10 if you 
don't want to go through the bother of backporting libncurses6.


By contrast the most recent daily snapshot build has been compiled with 
libncurses5.


Unless there is something really necessary that only libncurses6 
provides (and which doesn't affect the snapshot build), this is going to 
limit the acceptability of Firebird 4. It would be good idea to re-issue 
the binaries using the same compilation environment as the snapshot builds.




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