<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:25 AM, René J.V. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjvbertin@gmail.com" target="_blank">rjvbertin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Out of pure curiosity, does anyone know what happens when an application links to ncurses6 and one of its dependencies to a (runtime) library from ncurses5?</blockquote></div><br>If it's using terminfo level stuff only and doesn't share it around (e.g. most uses of readline, which doesn't expose any curses/terminfo interfaces), it should work fine if it links successfully. Curses level will probably explode; the internal structures changed a lot, and curses uses a lot of macros some of which expose (or used to expose) internal state.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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