[tex-live] TeX Live 2006 binaries attempt
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Thu Dec 7 19:30:26 CET 2006
On 7 Dec 2006, at 6:13 pm, Karl Berry wrote:
> The issue is that no ncurses headers are installed by default (nor
> any other terminal library
>
> Wow. I never would have guessed a system chooses to install *no*
> tty library by default. Thanks for looking into it.
Well, the library is present, so programs that use it can run -- just
the "development" package (headers, etc) isn't included by default.
> The TL source tree includes libs/ncurses, so one possibility would
> be to use our own copy of that
>
> Yes, that would be desirable, but I can't spend time on it now. Maybe
> when I'm working on the new Texinfo release next year sometime.
>
> It's not clear to me how we can easily modify the texinfo
> configuration so that it falls back to TL's private copy of lib/
>
> No need -- using TL's curses would be preferable, just as it is in
> general for TL programs+libraries.
Well, that would be easier to configure. But easier still is to
install the appropriate headers on the build machine. :)
JK
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