removing termcap

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:32:37PM -0800, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:49 +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > - Rebuild packages currently using libtermcap against ncurses. It
> >   would be good to choose one of libncurses{,w} and link all binaries
> >   with it; linking with libncursesw will probably require more patching
> >   of configure scripts as some of them are prepared for libncurses
> >   already.
> 
> touch libtermcap.c
> gcc -shared -fPIC -Wl,-soname=libtermcap.so.2 -lncurses -o libtermcap.so
> 
> and then if you ship the created libtermcap.so with ncurses, you don't
> have to rebuild or relink anything.

I'm not sure we want to conflict with libtermcap. There might be an
application that needs the original libtermcap as the emulation
ncurses provides isn't perfect.

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Miroslav Lichvar