Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2001/11/11/23:49:02
Jason Tishler wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:03:16PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>>#1. Now use the auto-import stuff instead of __declspec(dllXXport)
>>modifiers. No more need for *compile-time* flags at all; only linktime
>>flags: -static or -Wl,--enable-auto-import. However, ncurses does some
>>of the "bad" things (the ones that today's binutils warns about, but the
>>previous binutils created buggy code for). The fix for this requires
>>changes in the ncurses library code (specifically, configure using
>>BROKEN_LINKER -- which changes some of the exported DATA into functions.
>> If you recompile apps, you don't need to worry about this though; it's
>>
> ^^^^
>
>>transparently handled in ncurses_cfg.h/curses.h).
>>
>
> I submitted the attached patch in order for Python (specifically the
> _cursesmodule module) to build cleanly again under the latest binutils.
> The above seems to imply that I shouldn't need this patch. Did I
> misinterpret the above?
No, you didn't misinterpret. I made a mistake. However, the #define
BROKEN_LINKER shouldn't go into client code, it *should* be in ncurses.h
(or ncurses_cfg.h, etc). In fact, I thought it WAS. But on closer
inspection, it looks like the appropriate definition only appears in
private headers that aren't shipped with the compiled ncurses package.
I need to fix this on the ncurses side.
--Chuck
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