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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:27:19 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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To: Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
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Subject: Re: two differents version of unctrl.h, one in cygwin-1.1.7 and one in   
 ncurses-5.2
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Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> GCC, the most common compiler in use under cygwin (I feel pretty safe with this assumption) is the tool that will be faced with two
> include files of the same name, and the issue of getting the right one *has* been solved by *distributors* on platforms where the
> cygwin differences shouldn't affect the solution for this issue.
> 

As I've said in response to Chuck, GCC has a solution, it's the -I
switch.  If you want to use the ncurses headers that are stored in
/usr/include/ncurses you just add `-I/usr/include/ncurses' and viola it
uses those headers instead of the /usr/include/unctrl.h header.  To
configure a program you would
  CC='gcc -I/usr/include/ncurses' ../configure ...
and the configure script would find the available headers.

The rule of thumb to use is, if a package footprint steps on the
OS/runtime footprint the package footprint needs to be segregated in a
recognizable manner.  My suggestion to use /usr/include/ncurses fits
that rule.

Cheers,
Earnie.

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