Re: bug: ncurses + slackware 10.0, 10.1

[Russell Whitaker]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> >
> > > Program below illustrates a bug: lower case a,  lower case f thru z,
> > > and number 0 are printed with graphic characters. This bug did not
> > > appear in earlier versions of slackware.
> >

[...]
> Russ, which ncurses version is it that you have? Look in
> /usr/include/ncurses.h for:
>
> #define NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR
> #define NCURSES_VERSION_MINOR
> #define NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH
>
Using Grub, I can boot either slackware 9 or slackware 10.1
Only /home is common to both.

ncurses in Slackware 9:
  Major 5, Minor 3, Patch 20021012

ncurses in Slackware 10.1
  Major 5, Minor 4, Patch 20040208

So recompiled using --static
  test program with ncurses-5.3 works in both versions of slackware
  test program with ncurses-5.4 fails in both versions of slackware

If you send me a patch I'll be glad to try it.

  Russ