Ok, I'm leaving the subject line as is, but changing the headers so this goes to the list instead of you personally (the from was you and there was no Reply-To). Hopefully this is the correct thing to do.
<snip> >searched the archives. The current version of ncurses, 5.2-7, requires >that you -DBROKEN_LINKER for both -static and dynamic builds. Try >compiling with -DBROKEN_LINKER, but link dynamically (without -static) <snip> >A-ha! This is the BROKEN_LINKER problem. <snip> >Try to link dynamically with -DBROKEN_LINKER first. Then we can >investigate wacky COLS gdb problems. Yes! If I define BROKEN_LINKER, I can compile & then successfully link either way (with or without -static). I find it still crashes under gdb if linked without -static (segfault at the first reference to LINES), but if both compiled with BROKEN_LINKER and linked with -static, then it runs under gdb without segfaulting. Thanks much! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/