Problem with curses and UTF-8

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Feb 8 16:27:20 EST 2006


> I'll test it if someone would dumb down "link with ncursesw instead of
> ncurses" a little for me.
> 
> I tried:
> ./configure --with-libs="ncursesw5"
> 
> and it failed saying:
> checking size of wchar_t... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof
> (wchar_t), 77

If that was Python's configure: don't do that. Instead, hack setup.py
to make it change the compiler/linker settings, or even edit the
compiler/linker line manually at first.

Regards.
Martin



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