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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: eric AT sandall.us
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ncurses fixincludes problem
  • Date: 15 Nov 2002 00:16:13 -0500

I'd say ncurses should... since it's ncuses that makes the conflicting
.h, right?

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 23:53, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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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