Re: tin modifies terminal settings

clemens fischer <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:37:27 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.tin.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dennis Preiser wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:06:54PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:
> >   $ ncursesw5-config --version -> 5.7.20081102
> >   $ ncursesw5-config --abi-version -> 5
> >
> >   $ tin -V
> >   Version: tin 1.9.6 release 20100313 ("Lochruan") Mar 29 2010 22:46:39
> >   Platform:
> >           OS-Name  = "linux-gnu"
> >   Compiler:
> >           CC       = "gcc"
> >           CFLAGS   = "-g -O"
> >           CPP      = "gcc -E"
> >           CPPFLAGS = "-D_GNU_SOURCE"
> >   Linker and Libraries:
> >           LD       = "gcc"
> >           LDFLAGS  = "-g"
> >           LIBS     = "-lcurses   -lidn -licuuc"
>                          ^^^^^^
> You could try to link against ncursesw.
>
> ./configure [...] --with-screen=ncursesw

Ok, this is what I tried and it fixed my problem.  But why is ncursesw
not the default if available on the system?  I'd tend to consider this
a bug.

clemens