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Re: two differents version of unctrl.h, one in cygwin-1.1.7 and one in ncurses-5.2
- To: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: two differents version of unctrl.h, one in cygwin-1.1.7 and one in ncurses-5.2
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:27:53 -0500
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.1010116130536.8064D-100000@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Mumit Khan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > In this case, I'm not sure exactly why newlib has a unctrl.h file, though.
> > I'm willing to use the ncurses version instead if that is the consensus.
> > The ncurses layout on my linux system seems to be different than cygwin
> > though so I don't see a clear correspondence.
>
> Newlib has a bunch of stuff thrown in that may be there just for
> historical reasons, or to support certain targets. I don't see any
> other reason for newlib to contain unctrl. I have yet to see a non-
> curses program include unctrl.h, but of course someone must've done
> it for it to be included in newlib. Is there a problem in ncurses
> one overwriting the newlib one? I can't see it offhand, but that's
> untested.
>
The problem will be the other way 'round. If there is a new release of
the Cygwin runtime it will overlay the header from ncurses.
Cheers,
Earnie.
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