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Re: [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 09:12:52 -0800
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On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 12:58 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Avoid incompatible pointer types in terminfo global variable checks.

For the record, the incompatibility seems to be that ncurses now
declares these as arrays of const pointer to const char.

Curiously (incorrectly?) the Solaris 11.3 documentation available
online shows them as only char*, not even char**.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)
  - From: Oliver Kiddle

References:
- [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)
  - From: Florian Weimer

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