Bug 3869
| Summary: | problems with programs written in c++ and using ncurses | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Péter, Soós <sp> |
| Component: | ncurses | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-05-05 17:13:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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We know of several programs written in C++ which use ncurses and which work fine in 6.0. Could you please supply more specifics about what programs aren't working for you and what the problems are? Thanks. See le-1.5.0-1.src.rpm package on contrib.redhat.com/libc6. I had no problem compiling the le package, other than the fact that it uses the old %attr(mode) format, where it should use %attr(mode,owner,group) format. This is why packaging the RPM fails. Not the building is the problem but using. The screen handling is buggy if ncurses is compiled without --with-cxx (e.g. scrolling down and up fills my screen with the status bar). Ask the author of the program Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav.net>. He suggested the solution. I have problems with le even when ncurses is compiled with "--with-cxx" instead of "--without-cxx". I don't think the problem lies there. the --with-cxx only changes one thing -- it builds the C++ demos. It doesn't enable/disable cxx support. This seems to be an le problem, not an ncurses problem, as far as my research shows. I rebuilt the ncurses package with --with-cxx, install it and after it I built le-1.5.2-1.src.rpm package on contrib.redhat.com/libc6 and it works fine. ncurses has been fixed for this in 6.2 and later. |
There are problems with programs written in c++ and using ncurses in Redhat Linux 6.0. You'd change in the build section of spec file as follows: CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -DPURE_TERMINFO" ./configure \ --prefix=/usr --with-install-prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT\ --with-normal --with-shared --with-debug \ --with-profile --with-cxx --without-ada \ $RPM_ARCH-redhat-linux