Re: Detecting curses...

2003-02-19 Thread Hans-Bernhard Broeker
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Richard Dawe wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/mp_with_curses.html I saw that, but it doesn't solve the majority of problems you can have if you try to use vendor-supplied curses libraries, outright broken ncurses installations in funny places, color

Re: Detecting curses...

2003-02-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Richard Dawe wrote: > There's an autoconf macro archive here: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/ > > There seems to be a basic curses macro there already: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/mp_with_curses.html it's too naive (alpha quality - o

Re: Detecting curses...

2003-02-18 Thread Richard Dawe
Hello. Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote: [snip] > From my understanding, streamlining such platform specifics is one of > the major goals of autoconf, so: is there any chance that there will be > a AC_CHECK_CURSES macro in a future version, which tells all the > important facts about the libcurses it

Detecting curses...

2003-02-18 Thread Hans-Bernhard Broeker
Hello, autoconf team, I maintain a legacy project (the Unix source code browser cscope), which uses curses. Supporting all the different kinds of vendor-supplied and publically available implementations of this has proven to be a source of nightmares. >From my understanding, streamlining such pl