From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: need to unbreak Emacs build on AIX Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:28:33 -0600 Message-ID: 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" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35153"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 16:30:27 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 1kxAlV-0008sG-AU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:30:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46324 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAlT-0004Zh-Tt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35228) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAjk-00033w-Sk for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pf1-x429.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::429]:39152) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxAjj-0002mX-AR; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pf1-x429.google.com with SMTP id m6so1894905pfm.6; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 07:28:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=4o02fUxrpaoIJedfh5Fd8z69aSIlSS03DF0lzJkSmqw=; b=nNd57zL+QhV76Da9bo/VG1Nh/FksmBLNeZwxtv13FIwqf+fUBsxb1uPrwb0R4paj3q AgLNsZEbLa9zSLXrokGY1UtbebSGOimV24ib8yDkHYtPRHvHCZKzuQU+IfA5fDeeh6Ac nCFtg49l0tpzj3K6VMkHPSmHr46uy7uK8QPnHgAf3q4n1OFg+0usRz3e2/XY+Xh/APr9 parVjrXAiaOqDsOjj7DEea4RfHhLBNft5rRgEYBSec180Z/M1xdjdikMiKkQe60pQEB/ kQJbyic1kw4xHB1l0SvXdL7E/RIAnETNlMkWdxXrl40U9bM9U0RQiv/4sAce04VELyb5 TXcA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=4o02fUxrpaoIJedfh5Fd8z69aSIlSS03DF0lzJkSmqw=; b=hUzc7JLZZn9GuxHTFsMedWwBfZklVwKxjMKdokUbD4URrYz8obhlBYYdG7AxYA5/yJ JpTakIer5UnNRYDbvOAVpEAKyGxUKSLU9PivN74RAV8/pofNe3FAuCy9VOKyl7gSdwQ/ ImvevZn6YAM1/pYB+W656/QRuHmozizdMCC2RMjlNr3kxqJXHWm00b4nXffeTJ5vxwKo k5E+QkssF7yiB/35V2i5cDcaeb19BfJqKOhE0KJ2ax8HIXgwl42Smn7+MmxxygKhE3Qm P0PgQ/n9clKyoyPAZXkNLJPb3kCdU7s0Ez1sJ5ofOlQ6VtwT/JbbgCctoEZypPfEMSm8 T4eg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533NWtR0gLAkreCr+W3EkboSoHTkAH74M4J3342Rq+Y8CYWxiBqc WKvg8wk8mkUdHvIiQb9q4KPG5+nbJfrXMU0bHPs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwiolViBIS0Yvz7ovSHDGn9svKYCVzW+YJrBQpuA9dNcskiAQETqjp5jCjEzowtLAIvPjZCiLPXf5k1h4SMuHQ= X-Received: by 2002:a63:e108:: with SMTP id z8mr5023371pgh.363.1609946913737; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 07:28:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:28:33 -0600 In-Reply-To: <07c30857-1d1f-4c9d-d2f1-915f16bb91ee@cs.ucla.edu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::429; envelope-from=stefankangas@gmail.com; helo=mail-pf1-x429.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, 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:262602 Archived-At: Paul Eggert writes: > My guess is that the issue is rare, as the original curses library has > been obsolete for quite some time. And given that curses does not work > in Emacs 27 and this is the first bug report about it and I found it > only by doing some extensive portability checking, perhaps we should > instead drop support for curses, and insist on ncurses or tinfo or > terminfo. I wouldn't be surprised if the Emacs curses code has other > issues that we don't know about because nobody uses it. Paul, just some clarifications: are you saying that curses is completely broken in Emacs 27? And the curses library is obsolete? Is there any reason to keep it around?