I guess libncurses satisfies the Linux Standard Base Core spec.  I've
added your patch to pkgsrc, and committed a similar fix to the tcsh repo
as well.

Regards,
+ Kim
-- 
Kimmo Suominen

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:23:58PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Kimmo Suominen wrote:
> 
> > What Linux distribution are you using?  The Linux systems that I've used
> > all have libcurses symlinked to libncurses.
> 
> All Linux components as installed from pkgsrc (or pkgsrc-wip).
> 
> So I have:
> 
> reed@puget:/usr/pkgsrc/misc/openoffice$ pkg_info -L ncurses | grep /lib/.*curses
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.a
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.la
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.so
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.so.5
> /usr/lib/libncurses++.so.5.4
> /usr/lib/libncurses.a
> /usr/lib/libncurses.la
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.4
> 
> > I don't think gencat should use LANG/LC_CTYPE from the environment to
> > validate catalog source files, so as you pointed out, that seems like a
> > gencat bug on the distribution you use.
> 
> It is gencat as provided from GLIBC built from source using my pkgsrc'd
> version.
> 
> > Out of curiosity, what is the LANG/LC_CTYPE value you had originally?
> 
> They were unset.
> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
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