Re: getch() waits even nodelay is set

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:20:39PM -0400, Fangtu Qiu wrote:
> I guess that your ncurses-5.2-31 spec-file is not from RedHat because they 
> only have 5.2-28 in their ftp server.
> 
> I tried your recent patch which is ncurses-5.2-20020720.patch. It corrects 
> my problem. That's great.

I suspect it was the problem with recognizing C++ bool type.  So I put the
autoconf 2.52 back and will address problems in that as they come up.

autoconf 2.53 is known to have bugs, like 2.51, so I won't recommend either.
 
> > unrelated (I think - but related to C++):
> > 
> > One thing that comes to mind is that (noticed with gcc 3.x) the configure 
> > check
> > for C++ bool type doesn't work because someone decided to break the 
> > prototype
> > for exit().  That's "fixed" in current autoconf basically by substituting a 
> > new
> > bug (making the test more gcc-specific than it should be).  (When I last 
> > put a
> > patch for autoconf 2.5x out, someone immmediately found a problem in that
> > version which is unrelated to my own changes, so I reverted that).
> > 
> > I don't recall what 2.96.x does for that.  You may want to try compiling
> > ncurses (with the current rollup patch) and see if that part of the 
> > configure
> > script fails for your compiler.  In that case it's using the wrong default
> > (unsigned versus char) for bool, which could cause other subtle problems.
> >  
> > 
> 
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