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

[Albert Chin]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:13:38PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:43:44AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> > 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"):
> 
> let's back up a moment - why wasn't the "-xarch=v9" seen by the configure
> script?  If it were, my configure check would have failed to find the
> chunks of code where FILE members are used.  (Then vsscanf would always
> return an error, rather than failing to compile).

Hmm. My initial email was not based on the most recent version of
ncurses. I just build the latest ncurses library and the 64-bit
version of the library builds successfully (through the test programs
do not but that's a minor fix).

So, does this mean my patch is irrelevant (it's OK if it is).

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albert chin (address@hidden)