Re: Weird Solaris headers (again)
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:40:38PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Steve Kennedy wrote:
> >On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:35:55AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> >>On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Steve Kennedy wrote:
> >>>OK spoke to soon,
> >>>works with putty on xterm-color, not with Solaris DTterm
> >>>(i.e. get blank lines between headers)
> >>That's odd - I would assume skipped lines due to wrapping behavior.
> >>infocmp would show that as a difference in the 'bw' capability in the
> >>terminfo. But your comment seems to indicate that putty is working
> >>properly and dtterm is not (with ncurses, iirc).
> >>(dtterm has its own set of bugs - I only recall that scrolling doesn't
> >>work).
> >I had to add -lcurses to LDFLAGS for Solaris (using Sun's standard
> >libs) or would get undefined symbols.
> That's because of the header conflict in the older packages for ncurses.
> The recommendation for installing ncurses on Solaris is using the
> --disable-overwrite, which would put the headers for example in
> /usr/local/include/ncurses/
> The configure script used to force this whenever the prefix was
> /usr/local, but packages put it in /opt/sfw, confusing the configure
> script. It sets --disable-overwrite now when prefix isn't /usr
> (of course some application configure scripts don't look in
> /usr/local/include/ncurses, but that's a different problem)
I couldn't find ncurses installed ...
Steve
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