Re: ncurses not building on the GNU system

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

>   Since you're insisting on being uncooperative, all I can do is
>   glean the actual problem from your drivel, and apply a fix that'll
>   work.  For instance, if you chose to be cooperative, the original
>   report would not have trashed the other settings, but pointed out
>   the output of config.guess (that would be useful).
>
> You could have asked for the information that you wished to have, you
> didn't.  You pointed me to some FAQ that is completely irrelevant to
> the problem at hand.  Instead you are wasting both your own, and my
> time with this drivel.  The only person who is being uncooperative is
> you, you started of by being rude, then continuted with a message that
> is completely irrelevant to the problem at hand, and continuted with
> the same song in this message.

There were two parts of the report.  The first was technically incorrect, 
since it is not necessarily true that defining _GNU_SOURCE is the proper 
way to get something to compile.  Removing the other settings and 
replacing them with your favorite is not the way to report a bug - on the 
contrary, that's a form of criticism that makes me refer back to google, 
and recall your postings on the general topic from a few weeks ago.

Not a good recommendation, btw.

For the second part - I don't suppose you understood the technical point 
in the first place.  I'm perfectly well aware of the relevant standards, 
and (if you had bothered to do the followup rather than talk about it), 
would have at least a dim perception that there's some compatibility 
issues involved.

(The fellow who works on Eterm has an amusing webpage related to things 
like that bug report - look it up and look in a mirror ;-)

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Thomas E. Dickey
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