Re: ncurses-5.9-20120107.patch.gz

[Roumen Petrov]

Hello Thomas,

Thomas Dickey wrote:
>   ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120107 - Thomas E. Dickey
I cannot follow rapid development of ncursers.
> [SNIP]
> 20120107
>         + various improvments for MinGW (patch by Juergen Pfeifer):
>           + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
>           + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
>           + change recommended regular expression library.
>           + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
>           + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
Thanks to Juergen Pfeifer for mingw patches. It seems to me such patches 
cover native build.

In same topic but not related only to mingw I would like to inform you 
about cross-compilation issue - build on linux form mingw host and run 
in emulated environment.


- term_entry.h (real cross-issue)
  term_entry.h include term.h and latest is for host system
  make_hash - a binary for build system include term_entry.h to get 
enumerate DBDIRS for some functions in tic.h and cross-build fall if is 
for incompatible host like build from linux to mingw.
  For protocol I enclose all except enumerate in  #ifndef USE_BUILD_CC 
to build ncurses.

- db_iterator.c
  mingw patch just ignore st_size member in two places .
  If I understand code check_existence(...) is only to test existence 
of a directory .
  S_ISDIR(sb->st_mode) work on mingw.
  Could "..sb->st_size" be replaced by .._ISDIR(sb->st_mode)  ?


Regards,
Roumen Petrov


P.S.
- win_driver.c (not important, only informative)
  CreateConsoleScreenBuffer is not implemented in wine and tests crash. 
To avoid crash I just assign stdout (TCB->out) to TCB->hdl if TCB->hdl 
is not valid console handle