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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:44:11PM +0100, Julian v. Bock wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> >>>>> "ES" == Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> writes:
>>
>> ES> Correct, this is a "problem" with the new ncurses (5.3) spell, or
>> ES> rather, the new spell provides the proper ncurses.h, but gcc also
>> ES> provides it's own ncurses.h, which does not allow some programs to
>> ES> compile against it, so you need to remove the gcc supplied
>> ES> ncurses.h as Joel says above.  (Did I get the logic right?)
>>
>> Almost ;)
>>
>> gcc does not come with its own ncurses.h, but it creates its own
>> version at compile time. If ncurses is updated afterwards the gcc
>> version causes conflicts since it is not updated.
>
> It does the same thing with slang.h, which can break slrn.  Are these
> file required for anything or can they be safely deleted?

Perhaps we should have slang and ncurses remove their older, incompatable
gcc versions when they're installed?  They should also update the install
log for the respective spells, otherwise a 'cast --fix' will put them
back, or is this what we want?

Any other spells that do this?

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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