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- Subject: Re: [ANN] lcurses release 7 released
- From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:31:06 +0100
On 6 September 2011 17:19, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
> On 6 September 2011 17:12, Bernd Eggink <monoped@sudrala.de> wrote:
>>
>> On my Linux system, "require 'curses'" results in
>>
>> /usr/bin/lua: error loading module 'curses' from file
>> '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/curses.so':
>> /usr/lib/lua/5.1/curses.so: undefined symbol: strlcpy
>>
>> (glibc doesn't contain this function).
>
> Thanks; the problem appears to have come about as a result of another
> developer using a BSD system. It's unfortunate that the release
> process doesn't actually test loading the curses module; I'll fix that
> and the bug and make a new release.
I have committed a fix to git for the code error; anyone who would
like this can download it at once from
https://github.com/rrthomas/lcurses
I will now make the build system check that the curses module can be
loaded, and make a new release!
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