Re: zsh-3.0.6 on BSD/OS

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>]

On Aug 9,  4:34pm, Jos Backus wrote:
} Subject: Re: zsh-3.0.6 on BSD/OS
}
} On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:25:57PM +0200, Jos Backus wrote:
} > 1) On both BSD/OS 3.1 and 4.0.1, configure erroneously #defines
} >    TGETENT_ACCEPTS_NULL, leading to a coredump later on in tgetstr() in
} >    init.c:489:
} 
} 3.1.6 works out of the box.
} Maybe 3.0.6 should be changed?

Thanks, I've copied the configure.in test from 3.1.6 to 3.0.6.  Here's
the patch:

Index: configure.in
===================================================================
@@ -416,9 +416,22 @@
 fi
 
 dnl  Check if tgetent accepts NULL (and will allocate its own termcap buffer)
+dnl  Some termcaps reportedly accept a zero buffer, but then dump core
+dnl  in tgetstr().
 AC_CACHE_CHECK(if tgetent accepts NULL,
 zsh_cv_func_tgetent_accepts_null,
-[AC_TRY_RUN([main(){int i = tgetent((char*)0,"vt100");exit(!i || i == -1);}],
+[AC_TRY_RUN([
+main()
+{
+    int i = tgetent((char*)0,"vt100");
+    if (i > 0) {
+	char tbuf[1024], *u;
+    	u = tbuf;
+    	tgetstr("cl", &u);
+    }
+    exit(!i || i == -1);
+}
+],
   zsh_cv_func_tgetent_accepts_null=yes,
   zsh_cv_func_tgetent_accepts_null=no,
   zsh_cv_func_tgetent_accepts_null=no)])

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