Patch #428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8b38832..c9e7a30 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -699,6 +699,8 @@
Build
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+- Patch #1428494: Prefer linking against ncursesw over ncurses library.
+
- Patch #881820: look for openpty and forkpty also in libbsd.
- The sources of zlib are now part of the Python distribution (zlib 1.2.3).
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9762b9a..9eae126 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -450,6 +450,9 @@
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'):
@@ -751,7 +754,11 @@
# 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) )