Re: C99 compatibility fix for CDK configure script

[Florian Weimer]

* Thomas Dickey:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 10:27:10AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> With ncurses, there is no tgoto declaration in the curses header files,
>> so the probing always fails.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Florian
>
>> Do not probe for the curses header with the tgoto function because
>> ncurses declares it only in <term.h>.  Without support for implicit
>> function declarations, the header probe always fails.
>
> thanks - but I've already moved past the version you're patching.
>
> For the configure-script upgrades, see
>
> https://github.com/ThomasDickey?page=1&tab=repositories
>
> (for order, aside from interruptions, e.g., ncurses/xterm/lynx/vile),
> and for the macros, that would be (used in lynx, vile)
>
> https://github.com/ThomasDickey/my-autoconf-snapshots
>
> however, I've not pushed out a batch of those for a few weeks.
>
> While _changing_ the configure script is "fast", retesting and working
> on backlog issues isn't.

Thank you.  I wasn't aware of those repositories (or maybe I was once,
and forgot about them, sorry), so I didn't check them.

If you could make this change or something equivalent of a future
upstream release, that would be great.  It would definitely help
distributions that do not track compiler changes proactively.

Thanks,
Florian