[issue7384] curses crash on FreeBSD

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah <stefan-usenet at bytereef.org> added the comment:

Roumen Petrov <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Yes , I  understand .
> For the protocol did gcc on FreeBSD warn if library order is -lncursesw 
>   -lreadline  ?

No.

> P.S. Issue with readline library linked to termcap compatible library on 
> system that distribute more then one termcap compatible library is about 
> 10 years old.

I didn't want to touch the termcap logic. There's potential for breakage,
and a real investigation would be time consuming.

(There's a needless warning on Tiger about /usr/lib/termcap that could
be fixed in another issue.)

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