Re: Warning: "/usr/include/ncursesw" is unsafe for cross-compilation

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 09:52:10AM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> In Gentoo[1] one can see this warning when cross building ncurses with 
> unicode support:
>   cc1: warning: include location "/usr/include/ncursesw" is unsafe for 
> cross-compilation [-Wpoison-system-directories]
> This is because ncurses adds -I\${includedir} to CPPFLAGS, simply removing 

Actually, the --includedir option is used to override the program's sense
of where the essential system headers are - if they are not in the default
location used by the compiler.

Setting the option to point to the default location - or as shown in the bug 
report,
to a redundant location - is pointless.

For cross-compiling, there are some valid issues with the sample scripts which 
I use
for making packages.  However, there has been no feedback that I recall from 
any packager
regarding those scripts, so I have not discussed those issues (they're simply 
to-do items
on my list (>1500 items...).

> this makes it build
> without this warning.

sometimes.
 
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522586
> 
>    Jocke
> 
> PS.
>     Why are there no proper releases of ncurses? I can just find a lot of 
> patches

I intend doing a regular release when I'm done with the MinGW port.
(Packagers can pick up the patches, of course - even Gentoo).

>     Is the a public repo somewhere?

Someone keeps a git repository, as noted here:

        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2010-07/msg00021.html

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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