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R: libtermcap.a in cygwin 1.7.7.1


--- Ven 1/10/10, Dipak Gaigole  ha scritto:

> Hello,
> 
> Recently I had uninstalled my previous version of cygwin
> (1.5.24) and
> did a fresh install of latest cygwin (1.7.7.1)
> 
> When I tried to recompile my code it failed because of
> libtermcap.a
> not found. This termcap library is needed by my code.

newly compiled applications should use terminfo
(that is, libncurses) and not libtermcap, see
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-12/msg00000.html

> 
> Further investigation shows that this library is missing
> from this
> latest cygwin installer package.
> 
> As far as I know, the termcap library is provided under
> "terminfo" or
> the older "termcap" cygwin package.
> 
> During my installation, I had included all the "devel"
> packages.
> 
> #########################################
> Administrator@engwin03-64dev1 ~
> $ cygcheck -c "cygwin"
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package Version Status
> cygwin 1.7.7-1 OK
> 
> Administrator@engwin03-64dev1 ~
> $ cygcheck -c | egrep "ncurses|terminfo|termcap"
> libncurses-devel 5.7-18 OK
> libncurses10 5.7-18 OK
> libncurses8 5.5-10 OK
> libncurses9 5.7-16 OK
> libncursesw-devel 5.7-18 OK
> libncursesw10 5.7-18 OK
> ncurses 5.7-18 OK
> ncurses-demo 5.7-18 OK
> ncursesw 5.7-18 OK
> ncursesw-demo 5.7-18 OK
> termcap 5.7_20091114-14 OK
> terminfo 5.7_20091114-14 OK
> terminfo0 5.5_20061104-12 OK
> 
> Administrator@engwin03-64dev1 ~
> $
> #########################################
> 
> Does anyone has faced similar issue?
> 
> Meanwhile I am downloading the latest cygwin 1.7.7.1 source
> code and
> planning to recompile it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dipak
> 

Regards
Marco






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