[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {ncurses/libncurses9/libncurses-devel/ncurses-demo}-5.7-15

[Charles Wilson-2]

ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling
libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus.  It is often used
instead of termcap.

This is a packaging bug fix, and an update to latest upstream.

[[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1 ]]

CHANGES since 5.7-14
========================
o Update to 20091024 patchset
o Rename ncurses9-config file to ncurses5-config
o Moved ncurses*-config file to -devel package
o Compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1

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[Eric Backus-2]

Charles Wilson <cygwin <at> cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes:

>
> ncurses is a package that provides character and terminal handling
> libraries, including 'gui-like' panels and menus.  It is often used
> instead of termcap.
>
> This is a packaging bug fix, and an update to latest upstream.
>
> [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1 ]]
>
> CHANGES since 5.7-14
> ========================
> o Update to 20091024 patchset
> o Rename ncurses9-config file to ncurses5-config
> o Moved ncurses*-config file to -devel package
> o Compiled using gcc-4.3.4-1

I'm getting a segmentation fault when I try to use tput.  The program runs
successfully if you just ask it for a version number, or if asked for a non-
existent capability, but gets a seg fault when asked about a real capability.

$ tput sgr0
Segmentation fault (core dumped)                <---- this is wrong
$ tput -V
ncurses 5.7.20091024                            <---- OK, latest version
$ tput garbage
tput: unknown terminfo capability 'garbage'     <---- OK, this is correct
$ type tput
tput is hashed (/bin/tput)

The seg fault didn't happen with the previous version.  Is there anything else
I should try to debug this?  Would you like cygcheck output?

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[Charles Wilson-2]

Eric Backus wrote:

> I'm getting a segmentation fault when I try to use tput.  The program runs
> successfully if you just ask it for a version number, or if asked for a non-
> existent capability, but gets a seg fault when asked about a real capability.
>
> $ tput sgr0
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)                <---- this is wrong
> $ tput -V
> ncurses 5.7.20091024                            <---- OK, latest version
> $ tput garbage
> tput: unknown terminfo capability 'garbage'     <---- OK, this is correct
> $ type tput
> tput is hashed (/bin/tput)
>
> The seg fault didn't happen with the previous version.  Is there anything else
> I should try to debug this?  Would you like cygcheck output?

Short of compiling a debug version yourself and tracking down why it
crashes, no -- cygcheck probably won't help, because I can reproduce the
error here. It may be a while until I can fix this, tho; for now the
workaround is to revert to -14.

Thanks (sigh) for the report.

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[Charles Wilson-2]

Charles Wilson wrote:

> Eric Backus wrote:
>> I'm getting a segmentation fault when I try to use tput.  The program runs
>> successfully if you just ask it for a version number, or if asked for a non-
>> existent capability, but gets a seg fault when asked about a real capability.
>>
>> $ tput sgr0
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)                <---- this is wrong
>> $ tput -V
>> ncurses 5.7.20091024                            <---- OK, latest version
>> $ tput garbage
>> tput: unknown terminfo capability 'garbage'     <---- OK, this is correct
>> $ type tput
>> tput is hashed (/bin/tput)
>>
>> The seg fault didn't happen with the previous version.

Should be fixed in ncurses-5.7-16.

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[Eric Backus-2]

Charles Wilson <cygwin <at> cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Eric Backus wrote:
> >> $ tput sgr0
> >> Segmentation fault (core dumped)                <---- this is wrong
> >>
> >> The seg fault didn't happen with the previous version.
>
> Should be fixed in ncurses-5.7-16.

Yes, it is fixed.  Thank you!
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