Re: lynx-dev curses etc on IRIX (was something)

[dickey]

> 
> 981008 Allen Smith wrote: 
> > what luck regarding curses/ncurses/slang? I've not been able to get 
> > either of the latter two to work properly on IRIX, 
> > and the first (on lynxen since 2-7, after FANCY_CURSES stopped 
> > being defined for the IRIX curses) doesn't work very well. 
>   
> a quick look at  config.cache  seems to reveal that we have  curses 
> &  FANCY_CURSES  is involved too somewhere; 
>  ncurses  &  slang  don't seem to be used, 

ncurses & slang are test only when you specify the --with-screen option.
the configure script defaults to checking for whatever you've installed
as "curses".

> but when  configure  is checking things 
> it does ask about a performance trade-off between them. 

the performance trade-off is a feature of some of the SVr4-style curses
implementations (Lynx 2.7.1 used it, so I added it to the configure script
quite early on).

It turns on some places to use macros rather than functions, and probably
isn't related.
  
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