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Subject: Re: termcap moodule problem on Cygwin
In-Reply-To: <001601c08a03$93fb5170$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> from Andrej Borsenkow
 at "Jan 29, 2001 05:55:53 pm"
To: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:48:43 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>Cygwin has only static libtermcap. It gets linked twice - into main zsh
>(libzsh to be sure) where term is (re-)initalized and into termcap.dll where
>bin_echotc is defined. Only first one calls tgetent() so every call to `echotc
>cap' crashes somewhere in termcap.

We've had this problem before, with a static `environ' symbol.  There's an
autoconf test for it in aczsh.m4.  Is there an appropriate symbol here
that we can use to test for a static termcap, to extend the test?

-zefram