Re: ncurses-5.5 make failures for PASE (derived from AIX 5.3)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Nicholas Campion wrote:

> I am attempting to compile ncurses 5.5 on PASE.  Many people are not
...
> poster that they try "--with-caps=aix4" which I tried.  The compile
> still complete's fine, but the make fails with the error:
>
> > ../ncurses/comp_captab.c:3018: #error --> term.h and
> > comp_captab.c disagree
> > about the <--
> > ../ncurses/comp_captab.c:3019: #error --> numbers of booleans, numbers
> > and/or strings <--
> > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

The error is because (for whatever reason) the shell script that builds
comp_captab.c isn't succeeding.  That uses awk and a program "make_hash"
which is built shortly before this.  Seeing the actual comp_captab.c
(and the full make log) would allow one to see the problem.

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