Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8

[Albert Chin]

I am attempting to build a 64-bit version of the ncurses library on
Solaris 8/SPARC using the Sun C compiler. Building the 32-bit version
works fine. However, for the 64-bit version (CFLAGS="-xarch=v9"):

cd ../obj_s;  cc -I../ncurses -I.  -I. -I../include
-I/opt/TWWfsw/ncurses5/include/ncurses -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -mr -Qn -xO2
-xtarget=generic -xarch=v9  -KPIC -c ../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c
"../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 50: undefined struct/union member: _flag
"../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 51: undefined struct/union member: _ptr
"../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 51: undefined struct/union member: _base
"../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 51: warning: improper
pointer/integer combination: op "="
"../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 52: undefined struct/union member: _cnt
"../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c", line 53: undefined struct/union member: _file
cc: acomp failed for ../ncurses/./base/vsscanf.c

The problem is that in /usr/include/stdio_impl.h:
  struct FILE {
    long __pad[16];
  }
when we're compiling in 64-bit mode. For 32-bit mode, you get the
usual things you expect in the FILE struct.

Is there a solution? An alternate vsscanf is available as part of the
trio library:
  http://ctrio.sourceforge.net

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)