RE: [PATCH] Building ncurses on z/OS

[Steven Pitman]

Hi,

1) xlC/C++ 2.4.1
is based on Clang but does not have this option. This isn't the same compiler
as found on AIX, so it can't be used to test. There's some more info here:
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/xlCC++V241ForZOsV24?OpenDocument

2) I've attached
a copy of config.log/config.status



3) Let me look
into this and see if I can make it work - thanks for pointing it out.

Thanks,

Steven Pitman
IBM Toronto Lab 
8200 Warden Ave, Markham, Ont. L6G 1C7



From:
       Thomas
Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To:
       Steven
Pitman <pitman@ca.ibm.com>
Cc:
       bug-ncurses@gnu.org
Date:
       2020/10/28
07:09 PM
Subject:
       [EXTERNAL]
Re: [PATCH] Building ncurses on z/OS

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 08:00:05PM
+0000, Steven Pitman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Building ncurses 6.2 on z/OS with IBM XL C/C++ 2.4.1 fails, and there's
a 
> few changes that needed to be made to get it to compile. Here's a
quick 
> description of the changes in patch that I've attached: 
> 
> 1) ./configure: -Qunused-args is not supported on the compiler and
will 
> throw an error when used, so this patch removes it if building on
z/OS

that's in a check if the compiler is clang, and if it fails for some
other compiler, is more/less expected.

(I might be able to test-compile with AIX, to compare results -- haven't
done that since I made this change...)

> 2) ./include/MKterm.h.awk.in: The included header doesn't exist on
z/OS, 
> so do not include it when compiling on this platform

...but that branch of the ifdef would be used if the machine doesn't
have termios (POSIX).  It would help if I had a copy of the config.status
and config.log from configuring ncurses.

> 3) ./misc/run_tic.in: The -x flag for tic is missing, so use the version
> without it

except when cross-compiling, the build "should" be able to use
the in-tree
copy of tic for installing the terminal database.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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