Would you please post this to bugs.python.org so that it doesn't get lost? thanks!
-gps On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Bill Green <b...@supposedly.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I ran across this issue several months ago and filed a bug report (#9667). > It just came up again, and it doesn't look like anything's been done with > the bug report, so I thought I'd post here. > > In _cursesmodule.c there are a lot of preprocesser conditionals that test > if the system is NetBSD. In my case, the issue was that the module built > lacked the KEY_UP / _DOWN / etc. constants, but there are other changes as > well. This is the case even if you're compiling against ncurses instead of > the system curses. Αttached below is a patch against 2.7.1 that negates the > NetBSD conditionals if ncurses is present. It seems to work as expected, > although I haven't done any real testing. I assumed this was done because > NetBSD curses was missing something, but I looked at the headers and it > seems to have most of the constants that the compilation directives are > leaving out (A_INVIS, the aforementioned KEY_* constants, at least), so I'm > not sure why that code isn't compiled in anyway. Please let me know if I'm > misunderstanding this. > > Thanks, > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/greg%40krypto.org > >
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