Re: ncurses/Makefile.in

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 10:12:48PM +0100, vcoxvco wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >in ncurses/Makefile.in the line
> >
> >CPPFLAGS       = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I$(srcdir) @CPPFLAGS@
> >
> >may cause problems when specifying CPPFLAGS during the call to
> >configure, i.e. something like
> >     ./configure [...] CPPFLAGS="-Ipath to some include dir"
> >
> >In my case, "path to some include dir" was the include directory of a
> >cross compiler for PowerPC running on Linux - it contains its own curses
> >header files, so cross compiling failed, as the original ncurses include
> >(-I../include) is put after the resolved CPPFLAGS.
> >
> >This patch has fixed this (ncurses-5.9-20121017):
> 
> I didn't get any reaction so far - has my mail been lost or overlooked?

I did this in a different way:

http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS-index.html#t20121110

20121110
        + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
          local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
          options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
          Vassili Courzakis).

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