Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: lxdialog: Enable UTF8

[Ken Moffat <ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net>]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > >
> > > OK, I'll bite - non utf8 here, and no libncursesw : a quick google
> > > suggests I can get it if I recompile ncurses with --enable-widec, but
> > > why would I want to do that ?
> > Could you try if specifying both libraries works for you. the 'w'
> > version first. Then we can use the 'w' version when available but
> > fall-back to the normal case if not.
> >
> > 	Sam
> >
>
>  Didn't work, I get the not unexpected "cannot find -lncursesw".  I
> think some sort of pre-test will be needed to see which one exists.
> I'm weak on doing this in a Makefile, but I'll have a look tonight or
> tomorrow.
>

 Hmm, I can repeatedly test by linking against candidate libraries by
converting the current if...else test to nested if..else (adding
-lcurses while I'm at it), but I can't crack setting HOST_LOADLIBES from
that - if the link succeeded, I'm into the shell code to tidy up and
from there I can't set a variable in the Makefile .

 I don't want to attempt to build a configure script in a Makefile -
even if it's possible, I think it would be nasty.  So unless I've
misunderstood your question, no, I can't specify both libraries.

 Note that I originally asked why on a system that doesn't use utf8, I
should rebuild ncurses.  A sufficiently compelling reason would make me
rebuild.

Ken
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