Re: Runtine error with minicom command after upgrading to "ncurses-6.3"

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2022 at 02:37:51PM +0000, Jonathan Weidenfeld wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I encounter a runtime error with minicom command after upgrading ncurses SW 
> package from 5.3 to 6.3:
> 
> [cid:image001.png@01D8A828.E9E64490]
> 
> Ncurses package was compiled OK.
> Do you maybe have a proposal as to how can I fix the issue?

perhaps by recompiling or upgrading minicom

Packagers may choose to link minicom against ncurses built for ABI 5,
but most have moved on to ABI 6 (since August 2015).  Some provide
an ncurses5-compatibility package - that's the preferred solution if
you find changing minicom unfeasible.

In a quick check of the code, minicom appears to use only the termcap
interface (of ncurses), making it not care much about the difference
between ABI 5 and 6.  The termcap interface doesn't use any data
structures, just function-calls.  You (probably) could use the
ncurses 6.3 shared library with _that_, but would be severely disappointed
by any terminfo- or curses-applications which accidently linked to the
wrong ABI.
 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan Weidenfeld
> NPI Testing Engineer
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