Re: Zsh doesn't compile correctly out of the box for HPUX

[Nathan Peirce <nathan@fc.hp.com>]

I don't know much about curses libraries.  I did see this comment on
an HP-UX transition website:

"Hcurses library - HP-UX curses was
replaced with X/Open curses (NcNs401)

These curses interfaces are HP proprietary interfaces. The
use of these interfaces is strongly discouraged and may not
be portable to future implementations of HP-UX. There will
not be a 64-bit version of the curses
library."

But whoever is compiling the regular X/Open cursese for HPUX is doing it
wrong because it has the backspace problem.  So as long as Hcurses is
available, its use is a good workaround to the backspace problem.


On 12 February 2003, Peter Stephenson writes:
 > Nathan Peirce wrote:
 > > It does compile, but zle doesn't function correctly unless you have
 > > the LIBS line in the Makefile look like this:
 > > 
 > >    LIBS            = -lnsl -lHcurses -lcurses -lm  -lc
 > > 
 > > Notice that the Hcurses library has to be used instead of the default
 > > curses.
 > 
 > Is that really instead of (not in addition to)?  In that case, and
 > assuming Hcurses is HPUX-specific, I would think we can fix this by
 > changing
 > 
 > [case "$host_os" in
 >   hpux10.*|hpux11.*|solaris*)
 >       termcap_curses_order="curses ncurses termcap" ;;
 >   *)             termcap_curses_order="termcap curses ncurses" ;;
 > esac]
 > 
 > to 
 > 
 > [case "$host_os" in
 >   hpux10.*|hpux11.*|solaris*)
 >       termcap_curses_order="Hcurses curses ncurses termcap" ;;
 >   *)             termcap_curses_order="termcap curses ncurses" ;;
 > esac]
 > 
 > in the configure test.
 > 



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Nathan Peirce
Hewlett Packard
System VLSI Technology Division
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