Re: Build Bash using wide Ncurses?

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/7/21 2:14 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> How do I tell Bash to use the wide character versions of Ncurses?

The easiest way is probably to configure bash as normal and use
`make TERMCAP_LIB=-ltinfow' or `make TERMCAP_LIB=-lncursesw' and
add LOCAL_LDFLAGS as appropriate. If you have your private curses
version in a directory in which `ld' will not look, you'll have to
add LOCAL_LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/my/directory to that command line.

You don't really need to use the wide version of curses, since
readline only uses the termcap/terminfo part of the library, but it
will work if you have the wide and non-wide versions installed. If
you only have ncursesw installed, the bash configure will find it.

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