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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.ac | 21 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2007-01-05 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> + + * 23090: configure.ac: make ncurses preferred over curses + and try not to link to multiple display libraries if not + necessary. + 2007-01-04 Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org> * 23089: R.Ramkumar: Completion/Unix/Command/_mpc: diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index c7a32eb11..7f585d685 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -637,20 +637,24 @@ AC_CHECK_LIB(c, printf, [LIBS="$LIBS -lc"]) AC_CHECK_LIB(m, pow) dnl Prefer BSD termcap library to SysV curses library, except on certain -dnl SYSV-derived systems. +dnl SYSV-derived systems. However, if we find terminfo and termcap +dnl stuff in the same library we will use that; typically this +dnl is ncurses or curses. dnl On HPUX, Hcurses is reported to work better than curses. +dnl Prefer ncurses to curses on all systems; prefer it to tinfo +dnl if we were told to use curses. tinfo isn't very common now. AC_ARG_WITH(curses-terminfo, AC_HELP_STRING([--with-curses-terminfo], [use terminfo support from curses library]), [if test x$withval = xyes; then - termcap_curses_order="tinfo curses ncurses termcap" + termcap_curses_order="ncurses tinfo curses termcap" AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tigetstr, [$termcap_curses_order]) else - termcap_curses_order="tinfo termcap curses ncurses" + termcap_curses_order="tinfo termcap ncurses curses" fi], [case "$host_os" in hpux10.*|hpux11.*|solaris*) - termcap_curses_order="Hcurses curses ncurses termcap" ;; - *) termcap_curses_order="tinfo termcap curses ncurses" ;; + termcap_curses_order="Hcurses ncurses curses termcap" ;; + *) termcap_curses_order="tinfo termcap ncurses curses" ;; esac])dnl AH_TEMPLATE([HAVE_BOOLCODES], @@ -667,8 +671,13 @@ AH_TEMPLATE([HAVE_STRNAMES], [Define if you have the terminfo strnames symbol.]) AH_TEMPLATE([TERM_H_NEEDS_CURSES_H], [Define if term.h chokes without curses.h.]) -AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, [$termcap_curses_order]) +dnl Check for tigetflag (terminfo) before tgetent (termcap). +dnl That's so that on systems where termcap and [n]curses are +dnl both available and both contain termcap functions, while +dnl only [n]curses contains terminfo functions, we only link against +dnl [n]curses. AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tigetflag, [$termcap_curses_order]) +AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, [$termcap_curses_order]) AC_CHECK_HEADERS(curses.h, [], [AC_CACHE_CHECK(for Solaris 8 curses.h mistake, ac_cv_header_curses_solaris, AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <curses.h>], [], |