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 BAA11559 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:59:36 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA08505; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:35:46 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:35:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:35:01 -0400 From: (Mike Kazda) Message-Id: <9604231535.AA27344@rumor.fishkill.ibm.com> To: Jos Backus Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: zsh-2.6-beta14 on AIX with login shell problem In-Reply-To: <199604230717.JAA18016@st1-jos.oce.nl> References: <9604221714.AA18650@rumor.fishkill.ibm.com> <199604230717.JAA18016@st1-jos.oce.nl> Resent-Message-ID: <"W899A1.0.p42.IZFVn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/946 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >>>>> "Jos" == Jos Backus writes: 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? Here's the patch for making zsh check for curses before termcap: --- configure.in.orig Mon Apr 15 01:32:58 1996 +++ configure.in Tue Apr 23 11:28:34 1996 @@ -217,8 +217,8 @@ dnl ------------------- dnl CHECK FOR LIBRARIES dnl ------------------- -dnl Prefer BSD termcap library to SysV curses library. -for lib in termcap curses ncurses; do +dnl Prefer SysV curses library to BSD termcap library. +for lib in curses ncurses termcap; do AC_CHECK_LIB($lib, tgetent, [LIBS="$LIBS -l$lib"; break]) done Mike