Re: Building ncurses-5.7 on Mac OS X: workaround and installation bug fix

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> I recently built ncurses-5.7 on Mac OS X 10.5 PowerPC
...
> This system refuses to link with -static and -dynamic in the command
> line; my patches removed the -static option.

That mixture used to work with Solaris, but I recently amended it.
(seems that at some point gcc's behavior was changed).

> Subsequently, we found that the "clear" command was failing on some
> systems with this message:
>
>         'xterm-color': unknown terminal type.

Isn't "clear" linked with ncurses?  It should have found the 
case-flattened names.

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