many external program expects libncurses to not be provided as a single
library. Instead of fixing all ports, distribute ncurses the way
upstream distributes it
Turn libncursesw.so into a ldscript which will link automatically as
needed to libtinfow so so this change is seamless at compile time.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32098
Only keep the widechar version of ncurses as libncursesw.so.9
Keep the old name to avoid breaking the ABI compatibility (the non
widechar version libncurses.so.9 is not binary compatible with
libncursesw.so.9) since all ports and base are already only linking
against the widechar version we can simply remove libncurses.so.9
Since the .9 version only lived in the dev branch and never ended in a
release, it is simply removed and not added to any binary compat
package.
Add symlinks to keep build time compatibility for anyone linking against
-lncurses
commit c1acf022c5
Author: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Fri Jan 17 21:46:44 2014 +0000
Add an option WITHOUT_NCURSESW to suppress building and linking to
libncursesw. While wide character support it useful we'd like to
only need one ncurses library on embedded systems.
MFC after: 4 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
