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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Fix curses probe for older ncurses


From: Brad Smith
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Fix curses probe for older ncurses
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:29:39 -0500
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On 11/27/17 07:02, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 26 November 2017 at 22:13, Brad Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
Fix the curses probe with older ncurses (.e.g. 5.7, as used by OpenBSD).

ncurses 5.7 requires _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED to be defined for WACS_* constants.

ncurses 5.7 was released in 2008 and is now 9 years old. Why
is OpenBSD still using such an ancient version?

Signed-off-by: Brad Smith <address@hidden>


diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 0c6e7572db..9715b9c2cc 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3186,7 +3186,7 @@ EOF
    IFS=:
    for curses_inc in $curses_inc_list; do
      # Make sure we get the wide character prototypes
-    curses_inc="-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR $curses_inc"
+    curses_inc="-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED $curses_inc"

I'm a bit wary of this because we've found in the past that
defining _XOPEN_* defines breaks compilation with some
C libraries which assume that if you define _XOPEN_whatever
it means "only that X/Open stuff and no OS-specific extras",
and we depend on the OS-specific extras.

That said, I did a test compile on OSX, which was the
one that had trouble previously, so this may be OK. I think
I'd rather leave it until after 2.11 releases, though.

I am not in a rush for 2.11. This and the other issues being
mentioned are not new. Thanks for the consideration of the diff
at all.



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