[Buildroot] Ncurses wide support

[Thomas De Schampheleire]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Gustavo Zacarias,
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:02:11 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
>> On 10/15/2013 08:59 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>>
>> > ncurses is crap :)
>> >
>> > A possible solution would be to have a package/ncursesw/ in Buildroot,
>> > that does the same thing as package/ncurses/, but builds the ncursesw
>> > library. This way, packages who want one or the other variant of the
>> > library can have proper dependencies.
>>
>> But that would require auditing which packages want/benefit from the
>> wide version and add some workarounds about that.
>
> For those who "want" ncursesw, the autobuilders will notice. For those
> who would "benefit", then it can just be progressively improved as
> users notice such cases.
>

If we are to provide two versions of ncurses (narrow, wide) then I
would propose to follow the same principle as for gcc: have one
top-level directory package/ncurses, and inside that provide
ncurses/ncursesw. There will be one common file with the common parts,
and two separate .mk files for the actual packages. This will limit
the amount of code duplication.

Best regards,
Thomas