patches to 5.0beta + I'm stumped

[Jeff P. Hollenbeck]

I had problems similar to below on an intel/Linux machine.  The solution
was to compile and install the latest version of ncurses (ncurses-4.2)
from the gnu site.  I don't know about SGI...

 On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Justin Hickey wrote:

> Hello all
> 
> On Aug 5, 11:34am, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> > Is anybody summarizing the list of patches and fixes
> > required to compile 5.0beta? I'm confused
> > with the many messages on this regard.
> 
> I am compiling the beta2 code on our SGI Origin 2000 running IRIX 6.5 and am
> keeping track of the problems and the fixes I have run into. I will post them
> if someone wants them when I am finished. However, at the moment, I'm stumped.
> I don't know much about how configure works and I have the following problem.
> 
> In the module grass5.0beta2/src/general/g.help I have error messages for the
> file menu.c as follows:
> 	line 742: error(1565): struct "_win_st" has no field "NONE"
>             	Maxlines = ((short)Numlines <= Windoname->CURSES_MAXY) ?
> 
> I have tracked the problem down to an entry in
> grass5.0beta2/src/include/config.h which is as follows:
> 	/* define curses.h WINDOW structure component */
> 	#define CURSES_MAXY NONE
> 
> This line was generated from the following line in
> grass5.0beta2/src/include/config.h.in
> 	/* define curses.h WINDOW structure component */
> 	#define CURSES_MAXY @CURSES_MAXY@
> 
> What is happening is that CURSES_MAXY is supposed to reference a member of the
> _win_st struct defined in /usr/include/curses.h. However, the configure script
> came up with "NONE" on my machine. So, does anyone know what should be the
> proper value, and how I can get configure to find it?
> 
> Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
> High Performance Computing Center
> National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
> Bangkok, Thailand
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