From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA13999 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:39:03 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA13081; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:20:59 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:20:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199604231819.OAA14841@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.6 3/24/96 To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: zsh-2.6-beta14 on AIX with login shell problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:35:01 EDT." <9604231535.AA27344@rumor.fishkill.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:19:00 -0400 From: Richard Coleman Resent-Message-ID: <"busT01.0.JC3.A-HVn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/947 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Jos> Fyi, as of beta14 configure still finds '-ltermcap' instead > Jos> of '-lcurses' on AIX. You can try relinking with curses and > Jos> see if that helps... > > Aha! That did it! It seems that when zsh uses -lcurses it works > correctly. Maybe the 'configure.in' file should be changed to prefer > SysV curses library over the BSD termcap library. Hint, > hint.. Richard how do you feel about making this change? I'll have to check that on a couple of machines around here and see what happens. My guess is that this change will fix AIX but screw up some other architectures. It's a no-win situation. I'll probably have to add some more architecture dependent checks. rc