Re: tin modifies terminal settings

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, clemens fischer wrote:

> 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.

More than one reason - tin's configuring against the system libraries 
which may not be ncurses anyway.  Also, because ncurses often is not the
system library, there are special features in the configure script needed
to detect it properly.

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