Re: zsh - hpux 11i prompt does not work

[Manish Ahluwalia <manish@cup.hp.com>]

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> 
> On Mar 18,  8:31pm, Manish Ahluwalia wrote:
> }
> } I use zsh on hpux. I have noticed a problem with zsh and hpux version
> } 11i. I have tried zsh versions 3.0.5 and 4.0.4 with the same results.
> 
> Both this and the backspace problem are due to the HP-UX curses
> libraries.
> The latest Etc/MACHINES file says this:
> 
>           Some of the special keys on the keyboard (backspace, delete)
>           have been found to stop functioning.  One suggested fix is
>           to alter the way the curses library is linked in the Makefile.
>           Replacing `-lcurses' with `-lHcurses -lcurses' in the
> libraries
>           is reported to fix.  An attempt to fix this in configure
>           is apparently ineffective; more information would be
> appreciated
>           as the maintainers do not have access to an HP-UX system.

Thanks a lot. I didn't see this section in my Etc/MACHINES (4.0.6), but
I tried the suggestion anyway, and it works!

I did not try the configure patch given below, I modified the generated
Makefile.

Is there someway I can help you guys figure out a fix for this that
works (say by trying out the patch?).

Please cc your reply to me as I am not a member of the zsh-workers list.

> 
> The "apparently ineffective" configure patch (actually for the file
> zshconfig.ac) is:
> 
> --- branch/zshconfig.ac      Wed Mar 19 07:51:26 2003
> +++ current/zshconfig.ac     Sat Mar 15 09:29:15 2003
> @@ -556,6 +563,7 @@
> 
>  dnl Prefer BSD termcap library to SysV curses library, except on
> certain
>  dnl SYSV-derived systems.
> +dnl On HPUX, Hcurses is reported to work better than curses.
>  AC_ARG_WITH(curses-terminfo,
>  [  --with-curses-terminfo     use terminfo support from curses
> library],
>  [if test x$withval = xyes; then
> @@ -566,7 +574,7 @@
>  fi],
>  [case "$host_os" in
>    hpux10.*|hpux11.*|solaris*)
> -      termcap_curses_order="curses ncurses termcap" ;;
> +      termcap_curses_order="Hcurses curses ncurses termcap" ;;
>    *)             termcap_curses_order="termcap curses ncurses" ;;
>  esac])dnl
> 
> 
> --
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> 
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