Re: [bug-ncurses] API change with macro KEY_EVENT?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 11:40:24AM +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> On 2020/08/17 04:57:02 -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hmmm .... those packages do fail in staging test:
> > > 
> > >  apparmor failed
> > >  ceph     failed
> > >  dpkg     failed
> > >  grantlee5        failed
> > >  kbuild   failed
> > >  kdelibs4support  failed
> > >  libappindicator:gtk3     failed
> > >  libarchive       failed
> > >  memcached        failed
> > >  meson:test       failed
> > >  python-pytest-django     failed
> > >  speech-dispatcher        failed
> > >  tcpd     failed
> > >  zsh      failed
> > 
> > I see - lots of copy/paste going on.  Aside from zsh, none of those
> > appear to have a reason to use ncurses.
> >  
> > > ... do I've revert the change for Visual C++ for OpenSUSE to get
> > > then to compile again?
> > 
> > That seems to be the initial fix.  I don't see a reason why ncurses
> > should provide a definition for a return value which is not supported
> > by the configuration you've built :-(
> > 
> > fwiw, there's no known users of the wgetch_events feature.
> > 
> > I could probably replace that definition by any integer constant without
> > altering the behavior of those programs.
> > 
> 
> AFAICS from source of both dpkg and zsh: it seems that those packages uses
> scripts (perl/awk) to seek for KEY_* macros to generate the header files
> used later in the sources.  That seems to be a common method to grep
> through /usr/include/ncurses.h :/

In that case, I can simply omit the entire feature unless it's configured.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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