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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ncurses fixincludes problem
  • Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:53:38 -0800 (PST)

This is slightly old, but still causes problems. Should the gcc spell
take care of this for us, perhaps in POST_INSTALL?

This needs to be fixed soon, one way or the other.

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

Julian v. Bock said:
> Hi
>
> If you have updated ncurses to version 5.3 after the latest gcc build,
> you might get build errors when trying to compile spells which use
> ncurses.
>
> The problem is that gcc tries to fix headers it finds on the system
> which might cause in some way trouble and stores them in a private
> directory. This include directory is used before /usr/include, and
> ncurses.h has (of course) not been updated in this directory.
>
> To make things work again remove
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/*/3.2/include/ncurses.h
>
> The /usr/include/ncurses.h header will be used afterwards but this
> should not be a problem in this case. If you get strange compilation
> errors in ncurses.h, rebuild gcc.
>
> Julian
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