From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:55:22 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Patch #428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.3c1~87
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bdba3b6d72810df9ed7600cb5ea469e4199595ce;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Patch #428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library
---

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4d23a972c0f9..ea6876355acc 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -112,6 +112,11 @@ Tools/Demos
 - Fixed a display glitch in Pynche, which could cause the right arrow to
   wiggle over by a pixel.
 
+Build
+-----
+
+- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
+
 What's New in Python 2.4.2 final?
 =================================
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4bf05107e123..7d874cdd3060 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -425,6 +425,9 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         if self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'readline'):
             readline_libs = ['readline']
             if self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs,
+                                                 'ncursesw'):
+                readline_libs.append('ncursesw')
+            elif self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs,
                                                  'ncurses'):
                 readline_libs.append('ncurses')
             elif self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'curses'):
@@ -678,7 +681,11 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
 
         # Curses support, requiring the System V version of curses, often
         # provided by the ncurses library.
-        if (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'ncurses')):
+        if (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'ncursesw')):
+            curses_libs = ['ncursesw']
+            exts.append( Extension('_curses', ['_cursesmodule.c'],
+                                   libraries = curses_libs) )
+        elif (self.compiler.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'ncurses')):
             curses_libs = ['ncurses']
             exts.append( Extension('_curses', ['_cursesmodule.c'],
                                    libraries = curses_libs) )