Re: AdaCurses: take the opportunity of the last GPR tools for build and install.

[Pascal]

> Le 25 août 2019 à 01:36, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 09:11:08PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 10:05:22AM +0200, Pascal wrote:
>>> Hello Thomas,
>>> 
>>>> Le 17 août 2019 à 22:27, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 07:34:19PM +0200, Pascal wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I took the opportunity of the last GPR tools for build and install 
>>>>> AdaCurses from Ada compiler suite GNAT Community 2019.
>>>>> https://www.adacore.com/download
>>>>> 
>>>>> I took ncurses source codes from Github repo:
>>>>> https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
>>>> 
>>>> https://invisible-island.net/personal/git-exports.html
>>>> https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots
>>>> 
>>>>> I push all changes to my Github:
>>>>> https://github.com/Blady-Com/ncurses/tree/proposal_01
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do I send a pull request to the ncurses Github repo?
>>>> 
>>>> no.
>>> 
>>> Ok I understand the way you proceed.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Or else what is the correct way to submit chage proposals?
>>>> 
>>>> diff's, like the attached
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know about the change itself, since it has to be tested against the
>>>> existing gnat configurations.
>>> 
>>> What is your testing process?
>> 
>> I have scripts which do configure/make/make-install/make-uninstall,
>> as well as making packages (for the AdaCurses tree by itself).
>> I keep the logs, compare and resolve differences.  What platforms I build
>> and test depends on what's changed recently.
>> 
>> Most of the builds I do are with the whole ncurses tree, which
>> makes some difference in the way the configure/make process works.
>> 
>> But I test-build AdaCurses by itself occasionally (I have logs
>> for Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE from last winter, for _that_).
>> 
>> Besides those, my whole-tree builds include cygwin and CentOS.
>> 
>>> On my side, I tested the changes with GNAT Community 2019 on macOS 10.13.
>> 
>> I did some test-builds with the 2018 version on macOS 10.13,
>> which worked (though I noticed a problem with one of the pathnames).
> 
> I took a quick look at this, but it doesn't improve my ncurses6 build
> for MacOS GNAT-2019 (that fails to find the libpanelw shared library
> with/without the patch), and causes the Debian 9/testing builds to fail
> to find _traces
> 
> (it's on my to-do list to investigate further)
> 
> The MacOS problem is one I knew about - simply haven't gotten to:
> 
> 181229
> **    The MacOSX gnat package insists on being installed under ~thomas/opt,
>               /Users/thomas/opt/GNAT/2018/bin
>       and does run when the $PATH is updated.  A test-build using cfg-ncurses6
>       fails since gnat's looking for "-lpanelw", but I'm building "-lpanelw6".
>       Looks like that comes from a pragma in an m4 file "Linker_Options".
>       There's 4 files to fixup, probably best to generate a script which
>       can be used to replace the DEL_ADAMODE hack.

Hello Thomas,

You'll find in attached file, ncurses complete build logs from the proposed 
changes repo:
https://github.com/Blady-Com/ncurses/tree/proposal_01

20190817b-Résultat de Terminal.txt
Description: Text document

My configuration macOS 10.13 with GNAT Community 2019 (/usr/local/gnat).

HTH, Pascal.
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