Re: [vile] compiling on OSX with proper resizing

[Daniel Ashbrook]

That would be totally awesome.

Thanks,


dan

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Daniel Ashbrook wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to compile the latest vile on OSX. The vile that one can get
>>> from Fink (http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/vile) is pretty
>>> out of date (9.4), but has the very nice property that when you resize
>>> the Terminal window, vile realizes and resizes its content.
>>> Unfortunately, I can't get that to happen when I compile it myself.
>>>
>>> The configure flags for the Fink package's version, according to the
>>> above page, are:
>>>
>>>  --mandir=%p/share/man --with-locale  --with-ncurses
>>>
>>> The only thing that I assume would make the difference is
>>> --with-ncurses, so I tried that, but no dice (it doesn't work without
>>> that flag, either). It's possible my ncurses is too old; I'm using the
>>> stock version that comes with OSX, which is 5.5.20051010.
>>>
>>> Any advice?
>>
>> It's probably because OSX hides the #define for SIGWINCH inside an ifdef.
>> I did fixes in xterm and ncurses for this; looks like I didn't apply
>> that to vile (it's implemented as a configure check which determines the
>> system's value of SIGWINCH and adds it as a -D option to the compiler
>> flags).
> 
> I do have pending (incomplete) edits for the next version of vile,
> but this change would only be the configure script (and configure.in,
> aclocal.m4 which you don't need to build).  If it helps, I can probably
> upload a configure script that you could try on OSX this evening...
>