Re: lynx-dev Compile problems w/ncurses

[T.E.Dickey]

> It seems like I can't compile Lynx with ncurses whereas it 
> compiles fine with slang. 

That's a bug in glibc 2.13 (broken definition of 'ERR').

simple fix: modify ucontext.h
  
> I had the problem with dev21 so I thought I'd fetch the latest 
> pre6 version to see if the problem persisted before reporting.  
>  
> And it does. 
>  
> Here is the output around the point where things go awry: 
>  
>  
> gcc  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/encap/lynx2-8-3/share/locale\" -I.  
> -I.. -Ichrtrans -I./chrtrans -I.. -I../src -I../WWW/Library/Implementation    
> -O2 -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE  -c ./LYClean.c 
> In file included from /usr/include/ucontext.h:27, 
>                  from /usr/include/signal.h:317, 
>                from LYSignal.h:5, 
>                from ./LYClean.c:4: 
> /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:74: warning: ERR' redefined 
> /usr/include/curses.h:195: warning: this is the location of the previous 
> definition 
> In file included from /usr/include/ucontext.h:27, 
>                  from /usr/include/signal.h:317, 
>                  from LYSignal.h:5, 
>                  from ./LYClean.c:4: 
> /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h:73: parse error before (' 
> make[1]: *** [LYClean.o] Error 1 
> make[1]: Leaving directory /home/mojo/src/lynx2-8-3/src' 
> make: *** [all] Error 2 

> Morten 


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