[Lsb-infrastructure] Navigator treatment of curses (special case)

Denis Silakov silakov at ispras.ru
Tue Jul 15 23:31:47 PDT 2008


Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> If you search for a curses interface - in my example
> I used vwprintw - you will get three hits for most
> interfaces, one for "libncurses", one for "libcurses"
> and one for "libncursesw".  For the "libcurses" entry,
> we see:
>
> Not in LSB
>
> with a comment about libcurses not being in the
> approved list.
>
> Many Linux distributions provide libcurses
> as a linker script which pulls in libncurses:
>
> INPUT(-lncurses)
>
> instead of as a symlink - in the linker script
> case I guess data capture might not find
> information about libcurses.
>
> But I guess it's kind of strange to make the
> distrinction between libcurses and libncurses.
> Perhaps this ought to be special-cased?

Yes, we'll add appropriate comment to the LibraryAttribute table and 
improve Navigator to display comments from this table on libraries home 
pages (currently they appear only in the lists of libraries 
used/required by applications).

-- 
Regards,
Denis.



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