Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: HTTP request from USS [PATCH]

[gilmap]

In a recent note, Thomas Dickey said:

> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:15:04 -0500 (EST)
> 
> two details:
>       a) there's a typo in your patch (should be HAVE_GETATTRS, not
>          HAVE_GETATTR), and
> 
Oops.  Thanks!  (But it worked OK on z/OS :-).

> Looking right now, it seems that the fix would be to remove the last
> part of the ifdef - where it says "|| !defined(NCURSES_MAJOR_VERSION)".
> (That would break some very old ncurses versions, but nothing else that
> I can think of).
> 
It's very much the convention for GNU configure to encourage testing for
capabilities (e.g. HAVE_GETATTRS), rather than for specific system
versions (e.g. NCURSES_MAJOR_VERSION).  I'm curious whether there's a
rationale for reversing that convention in this case.

Thanks,
gil
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