Re: bug: ncurses + slackware 10.0, 10.1

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> >
> > > Program below illustrates a bug: lower case a,  lower case f thru z,
> > > and number 0 are printed with graphic characters. This bug did not
> > > appear in earlier versions of slackware.
> >
> > I don't have Slackware 10.0 or 10.1; a quick try at testing this with
> > Debian isn't working out, since the Debian package apparently doesn't
> > build any of the units - just the compiler.
>
> Please use the option `--automake' when calling gpc, then it will
> build the units together with the program.

thanks (I did read the info page, but there are many options).

> Also, you might have to remove the `FrameWin' unit (it's not a
> standard unit, and the call to it is already commented out).
>
> > However, if it's an ncurses change (nothing offhand occurs to me, reading
> > the example), one could use ltrace to get a reasonable idea of the calls
> > that are being made in ncurses (not 100%, since some of the interface may
> > modify the WINDOW struct directly, but probably good enough to see this
> > sort of problem).
>
> I don't have Slackware 10.x here either, and the program works
> correctly for me. Unless you can reproduce a bug with the hints
> above, I guess I'll have to check it with the respective ncurses
> version to find out if it's a GPC or CRT bug (which would be my
> responsibility ...)

ok (I'll try this when I get home).  My ncurses shared libraries are
current, but I do have static libraries for different versions, against
which I may be able to test (though I'm not sure how to tell gpc to do
that).

> Russ, which ncurses version is it that you have? Look in
> /usr/include/ncurses.h for:
>
> #define NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR
> #define NCURSES_VERSION_MINOR
> #define NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH

The last I knew, Slackware is using 5.4 (release/no patches).

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