From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from math.gatech.edu (euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with SMTP id CAA27232 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 02:07:38 +1100 (EST) Received: by math.gatech.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA26299; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:48:44 -0500 Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:44:59 -0500 Old-Return-Path: Message-Id: <199511281445.JAA10305@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: aix broken? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:54:40 +0100." <199511281154.MAA10521@st1-jos.oce.nl> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:44:59 -0500 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-Id: <"ErAE23.0.rQ6.B5okm"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/656 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > >zsh 2.6.12 doesn't segmentation fault, but its tty interface is > >broken. In particular, it forgets what means, and it > >doesn't repaint the line correctly after a, for example, ^a^k. > > Try relinking with the curses library. (In Src, 'rm zsh', change '-ltermcap' > to '-lcurses' in Makefile, 'make'). That will fix it. Why does ibm (and sco) always have to make life hard for programmers? Since zsh appears to link ok with termcap, I'm not sure how to detect what to do in configure. I could make a specific check for aix in configure, but I hate to do that unless nothing else works. What have they done to the termcap library to break this? I wonder if this type of problem is going to get worse. Will we eventually have to rewrite the terminal interface of zsh to use curses or terminfo, rather than termcap ? rc