Subj : kernel 6.1
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Wed Dec 28 2022 10:37 am

>> I'm having issues.. something about tinfo and I am not sure how
>> to proceed.

> That is a ncurses compatibility issue.  golded probably requires ncurses-5
> which has become obsolete as of late.  See
> https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/ncurses.html
> for an excellent schpiel on how to potentially fix it.

Yes, I have run into it before with XPoint I think it was. XPoint didn't like my slackware but it might like gentoo better. There was/is some kind of workaround for that but I forget what it is.

There is a new LFS book out a few months ago. I've been reading it and pondering converting the BBS machine to LFS. I bet golded would run fine on that.

Gentoo builds ncurses with a "tinfo" use flag. That is not a generally used flag and I am not sure if I can or should disable it.

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