Re: [PATCH] Building ncurses on z/OS

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 08:00:05PM +0000, Steven Pitman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Building ncurses 6.2 on z/OS with IBM XL C/C++ 2.4.1 fails, and there's a 
> few changes that needed to be made to get it to compile. Here's a quick 
> description of the changes in patch that I've attached: 
> 
> 1) ./configure: -Qunused-args is not supported on the compiler and will 
> throw an error when used, so this patch removes it if building on z/OS

that's in a check if the compiler is clang, and if it fails for some
other compiler, is more/less expected.

(I might be able to test-compile with AIX, to compare results -- haven't
done that since I made this change...)

> 2) ./include/MKterm.h.awk.in: The included header doesn't exist on z/OS, 
> so do not include it when compiling on this platform

...but that branch of the ifdef would be used if the machine doesn't
have termios (POSIX).  It would help if I had a copy of the config.status
and config.log from configuring ncurses.

> 3) ./misc/run_tic.in: The -x flag for tic is missing, so use the version 
> without it

except when cross-compiling, the build "should" be able to use the in-tree
copy of tic for installing the terminal database.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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