Re: lynx-dev bug? described on netbsd-help ml

[Henry Nelson]

Brett asked me to pass this by the list so that it will be archived at
Flora.  The more [NetBSD] people who know about it, the better.  Anyway,
it's fixed in the latest NetBSD pkgsrc.  (Lynx's ifdef's are too much.)

__Henry
 
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 21:59:47 +0930
> From: Brett Lymn  lt blymn mungedat baesystems mungeddot com mungeddot au gt
> Subject: Re: Lynx Bug?
[...]
> Guys,
>         One of the other NetBSD developers may have come up with a gem
> on this.  In LYCurses.c, endwin() is called conditionally on the value
> of LYscreen.  At the top of LYCurses.c there is a block of ifdefs
> starting at line 753.  In our case we are not VMS but the default
> package build in NetBSD also does not use slang which puts us at line
> 758.  Here is the bit that causes the problem, older versions of
> NetBSD curses does not have newterm, so LYscreen gets set to NULL.  If
> you skip down to line 911 you will see an ifdef NEWTERM which will
> fail, the else clause is at 944 and is a bare initscr().  This means
> that LYscreen has been set to NULL and never changed so when lynx is
> exited the endwin() is not called hence the tty settings are not
> restored.  I hope that makes sense.  
> 
> I will generate a patch for the NetBSD pkg system that should fix this
> problem.
> 
> This is not a problem with the later NetBSD versions because newterm
> was added a while back.  Just as an aside, the NetBSD version of
> curses now has a resizeterm (has for sometime now) so you may want to
> look at your ifdefs to make sure you are handling a non-ncurses
> library having resizeterm :-)
> 
> -- 
> Brett Lymn
> 

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