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From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
Cc: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>,
	Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Make Failure on SunOS-4.1
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:57:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010425105730.A24050@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010425144152.ZM11080@candle.brasslantern.com>; from schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:41:52PM +0000

> We could back out the `termcap' parameter entirely, and we could back out
> the ability to use ${(k)terminfo} -- those were the changes that started
> requiring the ncurses header files to be included even on systems that
> have the old termcap as well.

Or, since I think that the only dependency on term.h is for the
{bool,num,str}codes, those could be made static under whatever
circumstances would call for that.
 
> Or we could change the termcap-search-order in configure.in to always try
> to find ncurses first, and skip defining HAVE_TERMCAP_H when we find the
> ncurses headers.  (My understanding is that in the distant past of zsh,
> there were some who objected to linking the shell against curses when it
> would be sufficient to link against termcap, because curses is bloated.)
>
> Or we could add another --enable flag, which switches between the two
> states described above (in which case it should probably disable the
> terminfo parameter entirely rather than just crippling it).

All of these seem reasonable to me.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-25 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-24 19:43 Vin Shelton
2001-04-25  4:13 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-25  9:55   ` Peter Stephenson
2001-04-25 14:41     ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-25 14:57       ` Clint Adams [this message]
2001-04-25 14:29   ` Vin Shelton
2001-04-25 14:58     ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-25 18:03       ` Vin Shelton
2001-04-26  4:27         ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-26  4:35           ` Make Failure on SunOS-4.1 (correction) Bart Schaefer
2001-04-26 12:50             ` Vin Shelton
2001-04-26 13:06               ` Or on ReliantUNIX ... " Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-26 13:15                 ` Clint Adams
2001-04-26 13:25                   ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-26 13:30                     ` Clint Adams
2001-04-26 14:02                       ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-26 14:20                         ` Clint Adams
2001-04-26 14:35                 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-26 14:52                   ` Andrej Borsenkow
2001-04-26 14:58                     ` Clint Adams
2001-04-26 15:32                       ` Bart Schaefer
2001-04-26 15:52                         ` Clint Adams

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