[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

STINNER Victor added the comment: > I should maybe open a *Debian* bug Done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602720 I don't think that we should drop support of libncurses because it is still the only option on some OSes. I'm closing the issue because it is now fixed in Debi

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

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[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: For the record, I filed the following bug against Mageia's libreadline: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2156 -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker ___

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

Stefan Krah added the comment: Hmm, I understood that your ldd lines implied that things don't work as intended in 3.1, hence the explanation. Perhaps this wasn't the case. :) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

Stefan Krah added the comment: There are two issues here: (1) If libreadline is already linked against ncurses, there is no way that the readline module should be linked against ncursesw. This was the direct cause of the FreeBSD segfault, so this configuration is also prohibited in

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

STINNER Victor added the comment: $ ldd $(/usr/bin/python3.1 -c 'import readline; print(readline.__file__)')|grep curses libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7537000) $ ldd /lib/libreadline.so.6|grep curses libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb76a6000) > Actually

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

Stefan Krah added the comment: Just a short explanation: In #7384 I used the strict version of the patch for 2.7/3.2 because Thomas Dickey recommended not to load readline+ncurses and ncursesw at the same time. Actually the distros should either link readline against libtinfo (Fedora) or onl

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

STINNER Victor added the comment: Does anyone agree with me? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue9408] curses: Link against libncursesw instead of libncurses

New submission from STINNER Victor : Because of #7384, Python3 now links _curses.so to ncurses library (bytes version) instead of ncursesw library (unicode version) if readline is linked to ncurses. I'm using Linux (Debian Sid). On Linux, Python3 should maybe only link to the unicode version,