[illumos-Developer] 415 libreadline.so.5: symbol tgetent ... not found

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 13:44 -0400, Gordon Ross wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
> > Generally, it looks good.  Any reason we have to ship termcap.h though?
> > Applications shouldn't be including this should they?  (Its not present
> > on our existing system....)
> 
> We don't have to ship it, but I think it's better to do so.  Here's why:
> 
> Before this (proposed) work, we did not really have a libtermcap.
> An application that needed the BSD-ish tget* etc functions had to
> import all of libcurses, and the headers defining what you actually
> import are curses.h and term.h.
> 
> With the proposed filter library as libtermcap, it's actually possible
> to import only the six BSD-ish tget* etc functions.  (And do that in a
> way that does not drag in libcurses if you have another curses lib
> providing those symbols).  So I think it's helpful to actually provide a
> header defining that interface, and termcap.h is the traditional name
> of the header to define that.
> 
> The proposed termcap.h is just like the traditional BSD one, so I
> don't expect it to cause surprises in applications.  As an example,
> the readline code autoconfgure found and used it just fine.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.  I am slightly (only slightly) concerned
that some code might sense this header and assume BSD semantics, or
choose BSD interfaces over SVR4 ones... is that a problem?

	- Garrett
> 
> Gordon
> 
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