Re: LYNX-DEV getbkgd

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> 
> > PDCurses (based on SVr3 curses) is going to be different in the
> > bkgd-related functions.  Rather than put an ifdef for getbkgd (which isn't
> > portable), there should be a feature-test macro (such as HAVE_GETBKGD) to
> > distinguish.
> 
> How can
> 
>  #if defined(COLOR_CURSES) && defined(getbkgd) /* not defined in ncurses 
> 1.8.7 */
> 
> be replaced until we have a HAVE_GETBKGD test?  Is this:
> 
>  #if defined(COLOR_CURSES) && (!defined(PDCURSES) || defined(getbkgd))
> 
> right, or something else?
SVr4 (being XPG4 compliant) is free to implement getbkgd as a macro
and as a function (it does).  But you don't know if you're going to get
the macro (it's ifdef'd differently on Solaris and IRIX, and, I'll bet,
on HP-UX 10.x).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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