Re: incompatibility between ncurses 5.3 and 5.4

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Adrian Maier wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My name is Adrian Maier and I am new to this mailing list. I have joined
> because I am experiencing some strange problems regarding ncurses 5.3
> vs 5.4.

"5.4" could refer to the release version, or to any of several development
patches.  What is the NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH defined to in curses.h ?

For 5.4-release, there was some problems with the legacy (non-locale)
implementation of 8-bit characters.  Aside from that, nothing comes to
mind as a general problem.  But with some more details, I may be able to
point out whether it was a known problem (and fixed), or some other issue.

If you're compiling from source, you may want to test with the first
rollup patch, e.g.,

        ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.4/patch-5.4-20040424.sh

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