Broken in ncurses 6

[Ross Hadden]

pick does not work with ncurses after its update to version 6. I have version 6.0-3 installed, but I'm guessing 6.x has the issue. The other ncurses apps I have tried work fine after the update.

[Calle Luks]

Thanks for reporting this @rosshadden. I'm not sure what might be causing this and will look into it when I have time.

[Ross Hadden]

Here's what is going on. In Arch Linux, they updated to ncurses 6, as implied by my above post. This means it's a breaking change for things explicitly looking for /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5.

I "solved" this by installing an ncurses5 package alongside my main ncurses package, however the best solution would be for pick to instead use /usr/lib/libncursesw.so. On most systems this should be a symlink to the current ncurses, in my case 6.

I don't see in the code where this reference is made, so I don't know where to change it. You guys are possibly using a library or wrapper around ncurses which is doing this. If so let me know and I will open an issue there.

Thanks!

[Calle Luks]

Interesting.

All the linking is done by autotools and the libraries to link to are specified in configure.ac. I don't see how this would lock it at version 5, though.

If you uninstall ncurses5 and pick, then reinstall pick without installing ncurses5, will it work?

[Ross Hadden]

Yes, that worked! Thanks!