Re: Zsh doesn't compile correctly out of the box for HPUX

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Nathan Peirce wrote:
> But whoever is compiling the regular X/Open cursese for HPUX is doing it
> wrong because it has the backspace problem.  So as long as Hcurses is
> available, its use is a good workaround to the backspace problem.

Here's a patch to the latest source; it's in a different file in 4.0 but
the patch itself should be similar.  Again, I'm assuming that -lHcurses
can replace -lcurses or we need to be cleverer.

The MACHINES entry includes some relevant stuff I was already
accumulating, I can't remember if I posted it.

Index: zshconfig.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/zshconfig.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -r1.30 zshconfig.ac
--- zshconfig.ac	30 Jan 2003 15:30:52 -0000	1.30
+++ zshconfig.ac	13 Feb 2003 10:53:20 -0000
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@
 
 dnl Prefer BSD termcap library to SysV curses library, except on certain
 dnl SYSV-derived systems.
+dnl On HPUX, Hcurses is reported to work better than curses.
 AC_ARG_WITH(curses-terminfo,
 [  --with-curses-terminfo     use terminfo support from curses library],
 [if test x$withval = xyes; then
@@ -573,7 +574,7 @@
 fi],
 [case "$host_os" in
   hpux10.*|hpux11.*|solaris*)
-      termcap_curses_order="curses ncurses termcap" ;;
+      termcap_curses_order="Hcurses curses ncurses termcap" ;;
   *)             termcap_curses_order="termcap curses ncurses" ;;
 esac])dnl
 
Index: Etc/MACHINES
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Etc/MACHINES,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 MACHINES
--- Etc/MACHINES	25 Jul 2002 13:27:21 -0000	1.16
+++ Etc/MACHINES	13 Feb 2003 10:53:20 -0000
@@ -69,15 +69,22 @@
 	does not work, but it does with 3.x and 4.x.
 
 HP: HP-UX 9, 10.20, 11.0
-	Should build `out-of-the-box'.
+	Should build `out-of-the-box', although various problems have
+	been encountered on HP-UX 11.x:
 
-	Problems with dynamic loading have been reported under 11, but
-	this should compile using the standard dlopen() function set
-	(rather than the 10.20 shl_load() function set).  More details of
-	any difficulties would be appreciated.
+	  Some of the special keys on the keyboard (backspace, delete)
+	  have been found to stop functioning.  One suggested fix is
+	  to alter the way the curses library is linked in the Makefile.
+	  This should now be done by default if you do *not* explicitly
+	  specify --with-curses-terminfo.
 
-	Compiling with gcc 2.7.1 is known to fail with header file
-	conflicts on HP-UX 11.  Use the HP ANSI C compiler.
+	  Problems with dynamic loading have been reported, but
+	  this should compile using the standard dlopen() function set
+	  (rather than the 10.20 shl_load() function set).  More details of
+	  any difficulties would be appreciated.
+
+	  Compiling with gcc 2.7.1 is known to fail with header file
+	  conflicts.  Use the HP ANSI C compiler.
 
 IBM: AIX 3.2, 4.x
 	Should build `out-of-the-box', but --enable-zsh-mem will not work.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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