Re: compiling ncurses on Darwin / Mac OS X

[Eugene Lee]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:42:49AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:19:40AM -0700, Eugene Lee wrote:
: > 
: >     CFLAGS=-traditional-cpp ./configure

: > Could this be added to INSTALL, or maybe add this to the configure script?
: 
: I think I need more information (why Darwin has stuff in their header files
: which is about 12-years obsolete).

>From what I understand, Apple's compiler uses a special cpp to handle
it's Objective C syntax and precompiled headers, which unfortunately
doesn't support GNU extensions.  Apple's cpp is on by default but can be
switched to GNU's standard cpp via the -traditional-cpp flag.  So it's
not really any kind of ncurses bug or a problem with Darwin's header
files as much as it is with Apple's compiler.

I ran into similar problems with compiling Vim pre-5.8, which required a
similar fix.  A quick search turned up tons of similar fixes from people
porting to Darwin.


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