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Subject: Re: [MiNT] Add wchar.h to MiNTlib
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
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On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:59 +0100, Frank Naumann wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > Although we don't have wide character support in MiNTlib it makes
> > compiling packages a whole lot simpler if we include the attached
> > minimalist version.
> 
> I never experienced any problem due to the missing wide character support. 
> Can you explain how and for which packages it make the compiling a lot 
> simpler?

New packages look for wchar.h and try and wrap the include. coreutils
and findutils are both packages that try to do this.

Without modifying their code they can't build out of the box.

Alan.