[Clfs-support] Ncurses Chapter 6.10 compilation error

[William Harrington]

On Sat, January 16, 2016 09:55, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use CLFS as a guide for porting Linux to our
> ECO32 system-on-chip. I was running into the same problem
> as Leon, even when using ncurses 6.0.
>
> On Fr, 2016-01-15 at 17:33 +0000, William Harrington wrote:
>> > ../include/curses.h:1631:56: note: in definition of macro
>> 'mouse_trafo'
>> >  #define mouse_trafo(y,x,to_screen) wmouse_trafo(stdscr,y,x,to_screen)
>> >                                                         ^
>
> As Leon notes, the problem comes from the generated file
> lib_gen.c, which contains functions as replacements for
> macros (and uses these macros within the function bodies).
> As it seems, the macro "mouse_trafo" is enabled when compiling
> the file, and thus replaces the function header, which is
> wrong. The patch in the attachment applied to the generator
> script MKlib_gen.sh does the trick, at least for me.
>
> Hellwig

Hello,

Does AWK=gawk during configure fix it?

The only time I saw the issue occur is when using Ncurses 5.9. Since
updating to Ncurses 6.0, I have not seen the issue. You can view the
lfs-support lfs-dev and lfs tickets regarding the same issue. I use
slackware and debian hosts when building and moving to Ncurses 6.0 fixed
the issue. We need more information as to why and how.

Sincerely,

William Harrington