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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Eric Sandall wrote:

>
> Dufflebunk said:
> > The slang and ncurses could replace the gcc one rather than delete it.
> > This would remove the need for removing the files from the install log.
>
> But then it would fail the md5sum check on on 'cast --fix', which would
> then replace them yet again.  Is there a 'clean' way we can do this, or
> should we just leave it as it is (I agree, replacing rather than deleting
> is a good idea either way) and just have things broken again when 'cast
> --fix' is run?  Perhaps have 'cast --fix' cast ncurses and slang (if
> they're installed) afterwards?  I don't like the latter method, but what
> else can we do?
>


The j2sdk-src spell has this same problem with gcc's jni.h. The solution
Jose suggested (and opted for in the spell) is to move it out of the way
during the compile.

My question is, how did the xfree86 spell get updated in the test grimoire
if it was known not to compile without moving the ncurses.h file out of
the way?

-casey