problem building ncurses 5.9 on i370-ibm-openedition

[Paul Gilmartin]

Hello, maintainers,

I'm getting (attached) trying to build in z/OS "Enhanced ASCII" mode.

It appears that NCURSES_CONST is not being #defined, or the
header file defining it is not #included.

I can't find a config.cache to attach as requested.

The .tgz attachment is probably BASE64 rather than the requested UUENCODE.

Would you like also:

address@hidden:180$ ls -l */*.lst
-rw-r--r--   1 SPPG     15       3317319 Jul 23 15:12 ncurses/make_hash.lst

... informative, but large.  Excepted:
                                                                   |  
20805     1
    87       |/* declare these, to avoid needing term.h 
*/                                                      |  20806     1
    88       |#if BROKEN_LINKER || 
USE_REENTRANT                                                                
|  20807     1
    88       +#if 1 || 
0                                                                                        
+  20807     1
    89       |#define NCURSES_ARRAY(name) 
\                                                                     |  
20808     1
    90       |  NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR(NCURSES_CONST char * const *, 
name)                                          |  20809     1
    91       
|                                                                                                  
|  20810     1
    92       
|NCURSES_ARRAY(boolnames);                                                                         
|  20811     1
    92       +extern NCURSES_CONST char * const * 
_nc_boolnames(void);                                          +  20811     1
    93       
|NCURSES_ARRAY(boolfnames);                                                                        
|  20812     1
    93       +extern NCURSES_CONST char * const * 
_nc_boolfnames(void);                                         +  20812     1
 ===========> 
.....................a............................................................................
 *=ERROR===========> a - CCN3277 Syntax error: possible missing ';' or ','?
    94       
|NCURSES_ARRAY(numnames);                                                                          
|  20813     1
    94       +extern NCURSES_CONST char * const * 
_nc_numnames(void);                                           +  20813     1
    95       
|NCURSES_ARRAY(numfnames);                                                                         
|  20814     1
    95       +extern NCURSES_CONST char * const * 
_nc_numfnames(void);                                          +  20814     1
    96       
|NCURSES_ARRAY(strnames);                                                                          
|  20815     1
    96       +extern NCURSES_CONST char * const * 
_nc_strnames(void);                                           +  20815     1
    97       
|NCURSES_ARRAY(strfnames);                                                                         
|  20816     1
    97       +extern NCURSES_CONST char * const * 
_nc_strfnames(void);                                          +  20816     1
    98       |#endif

Thanks,
gil

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