Debian Bug report logs - #275820
w3m has potential symbol conflicts with libncurses

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From: Thomas Dickey <tom@invisible-island.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: w3m has potential symbol conflicts with libncurses

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:56:47 -0400

Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.1-1
Severity: normal

w3m uses the termcap emulation from libncurses, i.e., tgetent(), etc.
It also contains symbols that can conflict with libncurses, e.g.,
initscr() in its terms.c file.  I've found this to be a bad practice
since it can cause mysterious failures.  My recommendation is that
w3m's conflicting symbols (and their calls of course) be renamed.

Here's a list of the symbols which are conflicting:

addch
addnstr
addstr
clear
clrtobot
clrtoeol
getch
initscr
move
refresh
scroll
standend
standout
wgetch

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-td2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgc1                      1:6.3-1      Conservative garbage collector for
ii  libgpmg1                    1.19.6-12.1  General Purpose Mouse Library [lib
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7d-5     SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1.1-7  compression library - runtime

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