David Rothenberger wrote: > > Rolling back libncurses8 and terminfo to the previous release solves the > problem for me. Recompiling lynx from source with the new libncurses8 > and terminfo packages also fixes the problem. >
Confirmed bug. I've pulled the release. Upstream has silently changed the API, but only for "broken linkers" -- in other words, if you are not ELF, you are "broken". And apparently we don't care about API compatibility for "broken" linkers. It's not just cur_term. There are 43 symbols that were exported by ncurses-5.5's cygncurses-8.dll but are missing from ncurses-5.7's cygncurses-8 (with no changes in how the two packages were ./configured). _nc_cap_hash_table _nc_capalias_table _nc_capcmp _nc_captoinfo _nc_check_termtype _nc_check_termtype2 _nc_comment_end _nc_comment_start _nc_copy_entry _nc_curr_file_pos _nc_curr_token _nc_disable_period _nc_do_xmc_glitch _nc_entry_match _nc_find_entry _nc_find_type_entry _nc_get_hash_table _nc_get_table _nc_get_token _nc_info_hash_table _nc_infoalias_table _nc_infotocap _nc_init_entry _nc_key_names _nc_merge_entry _nc_panic_mode _nc_parse_entry _nc_push_token _nc_read_entry_source _nc_reset_input _nc_resolve_uses _nc_resolve_uses2 _nc_save_str _nc_set_writedir _nc_slk_format _nc_start_line _nc_syntax _nc_tic_expand _nc_tic_written _nc_trans_string _nc_wrap_entry _nc_write_entry cur_term Given that lack of consistency, I also worry if some existing symbols have had their signatures changed. Sheesh. OK. So, no problem: I'll just release ncurses-5.7-[2,11] with a dll version bump to -9 (and a new libncurses9 package). But how do I get everyone's libncurses8 package back to the original API? I guess I can modify libncurses8's setup.hint to explicitly declare that the 5.5-3 version is current, thus superseding the bad -5.7-1 version... I was really trying to avoid a DLL version bump with this release, but it looks like that is not possible, due to poor API management upstream. This also means that I must also roll back the terminfo database layout change. Sigh. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
