Re: fails to build under Solaris 10/Sparc

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Peter Kruse wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > that's possible.  I don't have any control over the sparc system, and found
> > that gcc 4.x is unsupported for x86_64, so I don't have a good way to test
> > this configuration directly.
> >
> > At the moment, it's looking more like a bug in gcc than in ncurses though....
>
> but ... it's just that Define of _XOPEN_SOURCE, if I compare the configure
> script of ncurses 5.7 and 5.9 I find in 5.7:
>
> solaris*) #(vi
>        CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D__EXTENSIONS__"
>        ;;
>
> whereas in 5.9 it looks like this:
>
> solaris2.1[0-9]) #(vi
>        cf_xopen_source="-D__EXTENSIONS__ -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=$cf_XOPEN_SOURCE"
>        ;;

my checkin comment for that was mainly regarding 2.11 and wide-characters 
(it's definitely needed for that); I'll check/see what differences I see 
for 2.10 without the -D_XOPEN_SOURCE

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