[Buildroot] Ncurses wide support

[Ezequiel García]

Gustavo,

On 15 October 2013 07:18, Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> wrote:
> On 10/15/2013 07:09 AM, Ezequiel García wrote:
>
>> Currently Buildroot support building the non-wide (non-unicode) ncurses library.
>>
>> While ncurses support an easy way to enable wide support with a configure option
>> (--enable-widec), this option builds *only* the wide-enabled library
>> (aka libncursesw)
>> and not the vanilla one.
>>
>> In other words, it's not possible to build both at the same time.
>>
>> By looking at my Gentoo ebuild -which is also source based- it seems
>> they solve this by
>> simply building ncurses twice: first the vanilla, and then (if unicode
>> is enabled) the
>> wide-enabled one.
>>
>> Questions that arise:
>>
>> 1. Does Buildroot support something like this?
>
> Hi.
> There are tricks that could work, for instance by tweaking build and
> install cmds you could build and stash the widec version in some new
> directory inside the build one, then build the narrow version and
> install both - being in another new directory makes it "make clean" safe.
>

Maybe you could explain this in detail? Or draft some ncurses.mk
patch for me to take care of it?

I know you probably don't care about nano, but it's currently broken
because of this ncursesw lack.
-- 
Ezequiel García, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar