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Re: headers installed incorrectly?


From: Alexey Toptygin
Subject: Re: headers installed incorrectly?
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 23:42:23 +0000 (UTC)

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Thomas Dickey wrote:

My problem is that make install then put all the headers under /usr/local/include/ncurses, but it generated the internal includes as ncurses/whatever.h. So, if I use -I/usr/local/include/ncurses, gcc can't find the ncurses/unctrl.h (among others) that is included from ncurses.h. I have to have both -I/usr/local/include/ncurses and -I/usr/local/include in order to make it work. Is this a bug?

no, it's a feature.  The headers are in a subdirectory to make it simple
to avoid including /usr/include/curses.h

Portable applications that use ncurses would either have two -I options
or have some ifdef to switch between these cases:

        #include <curses.h>
        #include <ncurses/curses.h>
        #include <ncursesw/curses.h>

Does this mean I should be filing bug reports to authors of software that only test for ncurses.h and curses.h in their configure scripts? Should they all be testing for ncurses/curses.h first?

                        Alexey




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