Re: Building any ncurses source on Mac OS 10.1.5

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Scott Corscadden wrote:

> Yes, I spoke too soon - 2.8.3 failed too, but in a different place.
> Here's the output for 2.8.5:
>
> bash-2.05$ ./configure
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin5.5
> Configuring for darwin5.5
...

> checking for screen type... curses
> checking for extra include directories... no
> checking if we have identified curses headers... curses.h
> checking for curses.h... yes
> checking for ncurses version... 5.2.20001021

Is this correct?  I was thinking that you were building 5.3

> checking if we have identified curses libraries... yes
> checking for curses performance tradeoff... no
> checking for curses touchline function... bsd

For whatever reason (the clue would be in config.log), the configure
check to distinguish two flavors of touchline() did not work.  You
can usually work around this using

        configure --with-screen=ncurses

> cc -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -I. -I.. -Ichrtrans
> -I./chrtrans -I.. -I../src -I../WWW/Library/Implementation   -O2  -c
> ./LYCurses.c
> ./LYCurses.c:1732: too many args (4) to macro 'touchline' (3 expected)
> cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in
> basic mode
> make[1]: *** [LYCurses.o] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> bash-2.05$
>
> ./sc
>
> On Feb 7, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Scott Corscadden wrote:
> >
> >> Whoops! Strike that last comment - 2.8.3 seems to have gotten by the
> >> LYCurses.o file. Apologies, and have a great weekend Thomas.
> >
> > What was the error message for 2.8.5?
> >
> > --
> > Thomas E. Dickey
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> > ftp://invisible-island.net
> >
>
>

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