[ clisp-Bugs-693518 ] compiling witout libtermcap or curses

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Bugs item #693518, was opened at 2003-02-26 10:46
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Category: clisp
Group: build problems
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jörg Höhle (hoehle)
Assigned to: Sam Steingold (sds)
Summary: compiling witout libtermcap or curses

Initial Comment:
1. stream.d says:

#if (defined(UNIX) && !defined(NEXTAPP)) || 
defined(RISCOS)
# 
-------------------------------------------------------
--------------
# Routines for the Emulation of all VT100-Features on 
normal Terminals.
# Idea: Oliver Laumann 1987
                                                        
               
# Uses the TERMCAP-Library:
... follow tgetent etc. prototypes

I suggest there be a note about ncurses being able to 
replace termcap as a drop-in.

Neither "Writing Programs with NCURSES" nor "A Hacker's 
Guide to Ncurses Internals", both part of the 
libncurses distribution (at least on this Suse system), 
and written mainly by Eric Raymond, mention that.


2. config.log or configure show no single message about 
attempting to locate libncurses
All output is:
checking for library containing tgetent... no
As I said, everything went on until link time.

NO_TERMCAP_NCURSES (which lispbibl.d uses to protect 
#define KEYBOARD) was apparently not set.


3. Some code in configure/makemake et al seems buggy:
config.status says:
s,@LIBTERMCAP@,broken,;t t

makemake.in says:
if [ "${with_termcap_ncurses}" = "0" -o "${LIBTERMCAP}" 
= "broken" ] ; then
  XCFLAGS=$XCFLAGS' -DNO_TERMCAP_NCURSES'
  LIBTERMCAP="";
fi

Therefore one could expect -DNO_TERMCAP_NCURSES to 
appear in Makefile. Yet it does not. Instead, XCFLAGS 
seems overwritten later in makemake.in
if [ $XCC_GCC = true ] ; then
  XCFLAGS='-W -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wpointer-arith 
-Wimplicit -Wreturn-type '


Regards,
 Jörg Höhle.

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