Hi, just submitted a new ncurses version 5.6 pachlevel 20080405 to factory. Please note that beside the normal libncurses 5.6 we now have libncurses 6.0. The later has two versions one is thread safe and one is thread safe combined with wide character support. This together with the libncurses 5.6 and ts normal and wide characters support requires *FOUR* different header files. To be noted: do *never* use wrong headers with any from the libraries above as this are binary incomaptible. To use the normal vesion you may link simply with the value returned from ncurses5-config --libs e.g. `-L/usr/lib -lncurses', this uses libncurses.so.5.6. Remark: the command `ncurses5-config --cflags' returns nothing as the headers of libncurses.so.5.6 are found in the standard include path. For the version with wide character support the value returned from ncursesw5-config --cflags ncursesw5-config --libs have to be used for compiling and and linkage, which use then libncursesw.so.5.6 then. For the new thread support, the new ABI 6 has to be used which is automatically returned from ncursest6-config --cflags ncursest6-config --libs to be used for compiling and and linkage, which use then libncursest.so.6.0 then. Last but not least for new thread support combined with wide character support also the new ABI 6 has to be used which is automatically returned from ncursestw6-config --cflags ncursestw6-config --libs to be used for compiling and and linkage, which use then the libncursestw.so.6.0. For more informations you may read /usr/share/doc/packages/ncurses/README.devel for further informations. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org