Re: ncurses* subdirectories in /bin?

["Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

/usr/bin/ncurses-stat/ 
  contains statically linked versions of the main ncurses utilities
  (dynamically linked versions are in /usr/bin)

/usr/bin/ncurses-test-dll/
  contains dynamically linked versions of the various ncurses test
utilities and demos

/usr/bin/ncurses-test-stat/
  contains statically linked versions of the various ncurses test
utilities and demos

These were an artifact of the -test builds for this complicated
package.  However, once ncurses became 'stable' (hah!) I never
re-released a package that did NOT contain them.  It's probably a good
idea to eliminate at least some of these; together, the three
directories contain 1.4M compressed, but the whole ncurses tarball is
only 2.4M compressed.

/usr/bin/ncurses-test-dll/ is only 100k compressed.  So, by eliminating
all the statically linked executables, we can cut the ncurses binary
tarball in half.  Thoughts?

--Chuck

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> Chuck,
> Can you explain what the ncurses subdirectories in /bin are for?
> 
> I was just trying to help someone with a configuration problem and
> noticed the ncurses-stat, etc. directories in /bin.
> 
> cgf