From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: need to unbreak Emacs build on AIX
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:29:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b2c6670-2fb3-13d3-d350-6fd7a6efede3@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmk-WLdBp6YmZC+aKUfhavdM6pXbzV+=HKXoS-hTDQNDSQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/6/21 7:28 AM, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Paul, just some clarifications: are you saying that curses is completely
> broken in Emacs 27? And the curses library is obsolete?
"Completely broken" in the sense it won't link and Emacs won't build,
yes. (It will link in master, due to a patch I installed recently.)
And yes, the original curses library has been obsolete for at least two
decades.
> Is there any reason to keep it around?
Not that I know of.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-06 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-01 23:17 need to unbreak Emacs build on AIX Paul Eggert
2021-01-02 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-03 20:56 ` Paul Eggert
2021-01-04 3:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-06 15:28 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-01-06 19:29 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2021-01-06 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-07 6:20 ` Paul Eggert
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