Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:31:12PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > I think trio has replacement for all the functions. The libxml project
> > currently uses it and we haven't seen any obvious problems.
> > 
> > We *need* a 64-bit version of the ncurses library so we're prepared to
> > submit a patch with *some* solution.
> 
> sure - I don't have any problem with that.  (Disabling the function isn't
> a very close third alternative).

What's the best way to conditionally compile the trio files if needed?
I plan on placing the source files in ncurses/base. A few ideas:
  1. add to ncurses/modules but then they'd be compiled all
     the time (though not used)
  2. hack mk-1st.awk and mk-2nd.awk
  3. modify ncurses/modules at run time with the new trio files
  4. modify ncurses/modules and add teh trio libraries but
     preface them by BUILD_TRIO. we'd then run sed on the file
     before feeding to awk to leave them in or remove them depending
     on whether or not the trio libraries are needed.

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albert chin (address@hidden)