Re: Error building ncurses under cygwin and Windows XP

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Mike Dennison wrote:

> Using cygwin to build ncurses with Windows XP SP3, I get this error.? Please 
> help me understand how to overcome it.? Thanks.
>
> gnatmake -a -A. -A../src -A./../src rain -cargs -O3 -gnatpn? -I. -largs 
> -L../../lib -lform -lmenu -lpanel -lncurses?????? -lAdaCurse
> s
> gcc -c -I. -I../src -I./../src -O3 -gnatpn -I. rain.adb
> status.ads:55:56: "SIGINT" not declared in "Names"
> gnatmake: "rain.adb" compilation error
> make[2]: *** [rain.exe] Error 4
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dennison/ncurses-5.7/Ada95/samples'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dennison/ncurses-5.7/Ada95'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

I should have added the fix for this to the INSTALL file, since it's
a bug in the gnat port which is easily fixed _there_, but hard to fix
_here_.  On my system, I fixed it in

        /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/adainclude

This change makes it compile:

--- a-intnam.ads.orig   2003-10-21 13:41:51.000000000 +0000
+++ a-intnam.ads        2007-05-05 22:40:02.609375000 +0000
@@ -44,5 +44,6 @@

    DUMMY_INTERRUPT_1 : constant Interrupt_ID := 1;
    DUMMY_INTERRUPT_2 : constant Interrupt_ID := 2;
+   SIGINT : constant Interrupt_ID := 1;

 end Ada.Interrupts.Names;


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