Re: Build failure with GCC 5.2.1 (was: ANN: ncurses-6.0-20150725)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 09:30:48AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> In reference to:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2015-08/msg00009.html
> 
> I'm seeing the same issue, and I didn't see any resolution on the
> mailing list, and ncurses has no publicly available repository that
> I can find.

But the followup messages on that thread show that I addressed the
problem, and there has been no activity on that for several months.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2015-08/msg00014.html

> I fixed the problem with the following patch, though I'm not exactly
> sure why this fixes the problem.  But the forward definition of
> mouse_trafo is kind of pointless here, mouse_trafo is #define-ed to
> call wmouse_trafo() about 12 lines down.  So the function could
> never be called.

It can be called easily - see the curses.h header file:

        #ifndef NCURSES_NOMACROS
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -corey
> 
> --- a/include/curses.tail.old   2016-01-05 19:55:06.267420940 -0600
> +++ b/include/curses.tail       2016-01-05 19:55:14.575557130 -0600
> @@ -101,7 +101,6 @@
>  extern NCURSES_EXPORT(bool)    wenclose (const WINDOW *, int, int);
>  extern NCURSES_EXPORT(int)     mouseinterval (int);
>  extern NCURSES_EXPORT(bool)    wmouse_trafo (const WINDOW*, int*,
> int*, bool);
> -extern NCURSES_EXPORT(bool)    mouse_trafo (int*, int*, bool);
> /* generated */
> 
>  #if NCURSES_SP_FUNCS
>  extern NCURSES_EXPORT(bool)    NCURSES_SP_NAME(has_mouse) (SCREEN*);
> 

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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