Re: ncurses-5.2-20011215.patch.gz

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 06:12:10PM -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:56:54PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >     + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
> >             autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
> 
> 
> *gasp*
> 
> You're using 2.52?!?!

I'm testing 2.52, for several reasons.  But I have no intention of distributing
a configure.in/aclocal.m4 which cannot be used to generate comparable configure
scripts with 2.13 and 2.52.  The main reason for testing 2.52 is that there
are changes to make it simpler to get a workable configure script on OS/2.

I have to add a workaround for the botched cygwin-specific use of 'test' in
2.52, but aside from that, I was able to configure/build vile last week with a
similar script.  (I won't have time to try ncurses in the same environment for
a few days, but will work on the 'test' stuff at that time, and probably update
my autoconf patch then -- for some reason the autoconf maintainers are aware of
the problem but chose not to address it).

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