In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said: > Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:15:04 -0500 (EST) > > two details: > a) there's a typo in your patch (should be HAVE_GETATTRS, not > HAVE_GETATTR), and > Oops. Thanks! (But it worked OK on z/OS :-).
> Looking right now, it seems that the fix would be to remove the last > part of the ifdef - where it says "|| !defined(NCURSES_MAJOR_VERSION)". > (That would break some very old ncurses versions, but nothing else that > I can think of). > It's very much the convention for GNU configure to encourage testing for capabilities (e.g. HAVE_GETATTRS), rather than for specific system versions (e.g. NCURSES_MAJOR_VERSION). I'm curious whether there's a rationale for reversing that convention in this case. Thanks, gil > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net > -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
