From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: need to unbreak Emacs build on AIX Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:29:55 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5b2c6670-2fb3-13d3-d350-6fd7a6efede3@cs.ucla.edu> References: <2387f0f2-2b61-da56-4a52-345bd8aaee36@cs.ucla.edu> <83eej3g7io.fsf@gnu.org> <07c30857-1d1f-4c9d-d2f1-915f16bb91ee@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21188"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 20:32:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxEXa-0005Oh-6A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 20:32:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42592 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxEXZ-0002Ud-7Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:32:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxEVM-0001Oj-RC for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:33404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxEVJ-0002nl-ML for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 14:30:00 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83979160110; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:29:56 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id yAzzw2F7YVHx; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:29:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D324516011D; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:29:55 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id GrDaEX1QoRqZ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:29:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (cpe-23-243-218-95.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.218.95]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AC43F160110; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 11:29:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Received-SPF: pass client-ip=131.179.128.68; envelope-from=eggert@cs.ucla.edu; helo=zimbra.cs.ucla.edu X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.249, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262629 Archived-At: 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.