Has anyone else out there had trouble with ncurses? I've now run across at least four separate failures, all related to using ncurses instead of termcap:
1) When building NEURON (big hairy biophysical simulation system), the build fails because some symbols are the same in NEURON and ncurses. Despite the fact that they have different types (in C++), the linker links to the wrong symbols, causing a segmentation fault. Switching to termcap makes the problem disappear. 2) In GENESIS 2.0 (another biophysical sim), the build goes ok, but the program bombs when you try to execute regular shell commands from the command line. Again, switching to termcap fixes things. 3) diald-top, a monitoring program for diald, bombs with a segmentation fault, and it looks suspiciously like it might be down in ncurses code when this happens. I haven't yet tried switching to termcap to see if that helps. 4) If you do a custom build of XFree86 (for the beta version), xterm bombs if you use ncurses instead of termcap. I have heard of a couple of other Debian users having similar ncurses problems, but I've never heard of anyone having trouble with ncurses in other distributions. Any info? -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative.
