[arch-dev-public] ncurses wide-char only testing

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 16:11:49 EDT 2008


On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have set up a repo with an ncurses version that only has wide-charater
> libraries and rebuilt as many packages as I knew needed a rebuild.  See
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/ncursesw for details and the
> repo location.   There are about a dozen build failures that I haven't
> looked into yet.
>
> I am using the packages now and have yet to find a problem so I would
> appreciate some testing from others, especially people using other locales.
>  Only word of caution is that I haven't used ldd on the kde packages yet so
> there may be some rebuilds there that I don't know about.  Also I had to do
> a version bump of util-linux-ng and a patchlevel bump on vi.

Just making this more visible. I can test this and all, but I'm
sitting here in en_US mode, so it'd be appretiated if some people who
use other locales, especially those that typically cause us issues
(ru?) could test - this includes users as well.

Let me know.



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