Re: Build errors

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:57:43AM -0500, kynn@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> [...]
> >   gcc -c -I.  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMODULE -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -O2 -fPIC
>  -o terminfo..o terminfo.c
> >   In file included from terminfo.c:53:
> >   /usr/include/curses.h:452: `underscore' redeclared as different kind of s
> ymbol
> >   ../../Src/init.epro:6: previous declaration of `underscore'
> >   terminfo.c: In function `bin_echoti':
> >   terminfo.c:78: warning: implicit declaration of function `tigetnum'
> >   terminfo.c:83: warning: implicit declaration of function `tigetflag'
> >   terminfo.c:95: warning: implicit declaration of function `tigetstr'
> >   terminfo.c:121: warning: implicit declaration of function `putp'
> >   terminfo.c:123: warning: implicit declaration of function `tparm'
> >   terminfo.c: In function `boot_':
> >   terminfo.c:385: warning: implicit declaration of function `setupterm'
> >   *** Error code 1
> [...]
> 
> You may actually need ncurses for the terminfo module to work.
> 
> But zsh configure may not be accurate enough in its searching of
> supported libraries. It shouldn't have selected "curses" here as
> it has no support for "tigetstr..."

I suspect the library, as opposed to the header, actually does.  The
rule in terminfo.mdd is that the file is only compiled if
tigetflag is found; it doesn't bother checking for all the
tiget... functions since either all or none should be available.  This
suggests it's only the header that's defective, or at least not what the
configuration is assuming.  This changed in 4.2; before that the tests
were a bit more hit and miss.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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