Re: ncurses 5.6 bug report

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Dr Toma~^ Slivnik wrote:

> 1) From ./configure --help (ncurses 5.6):
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> --enable-signed-char    compile with SIGWINCH handler
> --enable-sigwinch       compile with SIGWINCH handler
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> I do not believe the first line is correct.

agree - that is fixed in

20070217
        + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
          (report by Michail Vidiassov).

(which is in the rollup patches)

> 2) ./configure fails when cross-compiling if ${BUILD_CC} == ${CC}. I note 
> that on Mac OS X, when cross-compiling for a different architecture, this is 
> precisely what I want, i.e. for BUILD_CC to be the same as CC.

Are the CFLAGS different then?

> I can get around this by setting CC=gcc BUILC_CC=cc (where both cc and gcc 
> are links to the same file, in my case /usr/bin/gcc-4.0), but is this 
> behaviour sensible? I can understand that you abort configure if BUILD_CC is 
> undefined, but if the user over-rides it by expressly defining BUILD_CC to be 
> the same as CC, configure should not abort.
>
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