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matchil

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 56

ncurses issue

Hi.
I have some ncurses problem (it doesnt have anything to do with UTF8). When I install EKG app from AUR or compile it on my own (from current source files) and open it in terminal (doesnt matter if its xterm or Terminal) and when I resize the terminal window, the "ncurses windows" of the app doesnt resize to new terminal window size.

I tried with another app - EKG2 from sorces and get the same. Any other ncurses apps doesnt behave this way (mc, elinks, htop, irrsi) but they are from official packages.

Yesterday I tried to compile GRUB and i get that:

checking for ncurses/curses.h... no
checking ncurses.h usability... no
checking ncurses.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to bug-grub@gnu.org ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------- ##
checking for ncurses.h... yes
checking curses.h usability... no
checking curses.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: curses.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: curses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: curses.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: curses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: curses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: curses.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to bug-grub@gnu.org ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------- ##

But I have ncurses and I dont get this worning during EKG compilation. Both Grub and EKG compiles thou.

What is the problem ? ncurses ? some settings ? Do I lack any packages ?

Could someone eventualy download EKG, build it and check if it works for him ... and share the package ?

Peace.

matchil

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 56

Re: ncurses issue

I have compiled/installed grub-gfx despite the warnings and its working just fine. But EKG is still messy, I've tried with all recent versions of EKG/Terminal and still the same ... I've noticed that EKG acts normally when I launch it under urxvt some guy on #xfce @ freenode told me that its EKG issue not ncurses nor Terminal, but I remember running EKG on Terminal under Slackware (before I switched to Arch) and it was working normaly.

Still no solution thou