I basically accept the upstream developer's position. Here are my comments to his response.
> > Torsten's suggestion of screwing backwards compatibility is not > > acceptable. OK. I haven't seen any systems which support SysV termio yet don't support the POSIX.1 termios, but I accept that there may be. On a side note, future systems are more likely to stick to POSIX and eventually throw away legacy rubbish, so it may be worthwhile to make termios the primary terminal interface API and revert to others on systems that don't speak POSIX. > > The real bug is in glibc, not in ispell. Yes, assuming glibc _claims_ to support termio. It is in fact quite easy to fix by redefining the appropriate constants in <termio.h> after #include <termios.h>. This is how it is done in Digital UNIX, for instance. Shall we file a bug report against glibc? > > Glibc has > > failed to properly support backwards compatibility with termio. Until > > glibc is fixed, the suggested patch is the preferred solution. That's fine with me. After all, support for all existing UNIX terminal interfaces just can't be achieved without heavy #ifdefing (or resorting to some wrapper library). Thanks, Nikita
