Re: ncurses, OS X and terminal size

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, Nicholas Cole wrote:

> I've been doing some googling on this problem, and it seems to be
> something that others have encountered as well.
>
> This link has some C code which demonstrates the problem and which
> proves that it is not the python bindings that are at fault but some
> problem with curses on OS X.
>
> http://blog.rezra.com/articles/2005/12
>
> Does that help anyone more knowledgeable than me sort out what the problem is?
>
> Thomas - I've downloaded curses and run ./configure as you suggested -
> the output is at the foot of this email.

> Configuring NCURSES 5.5 ABI 5 (Sat Mar 18 23:13:05 GMT 2006)
...
> checking declaration of size-change... yes

this says it found the struct

However, looking at a copy of the Darwin headers that someone gave me,
I see this in <sys/signal.h>

#if  !defined(_POSIX_C_SOURCE)
#define SIGWINCH 28     /* window size changes */
#define SIGINFO 29      /* information request */
#endif

It's possible that's related (it's late, but I don't see the -D's echoed
in the trace that would tell whether that is the case; it would be in
config.status).

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