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--- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.53 2008/11/28 16:39:12 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: TO-DO,v 1.56 2011/02/26 16:58:53 tom Exp $
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SHORT-TERM TO-DO ITEMS:
+ the --with-pthread configuration builds for Cygwin, but does not work
properly (test/worm.c shows all of the worms in the same location).
-+ the Ada95 tree requires a small fix to build on Cygwin, since the GNAT port
- to that platform provides an incomplete Interrupts.Names package. For
- instance (your gcc version may be different):
++ the Ada95 tree may require a small fix to build on Cygwin, since the GNAT
+ port to that platform for 3.4.4 provides an incomplete Interrupts.Names
+ package. For instance (your gcc version may be different):
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/adainclude/a-intnam.ads
cut here...
Building those with libtool does not work either. (This is a problem with
the BSD platforms).
++ more work is needed to make the MinGW port support ordinary terminals.
+
Portability (or lack thereof):
+ Users of older System V UNIXes (but not Solaris, and probably not SVr4) may
trip over a known problem with the signal-handling code which causes abrupt
termination of ncurses applications following resume from a ^Z suspend (this
problem was first seen running lynx). You will not see this problem if you
- are running Linux or one of the 4.4BSD derivatives like FreeBSD, NetBSD, or
- BSDI. For details, see the analysis in the header comment of
- ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c .
+ are using one of the 4.4BSD derivatives like such as, NetBSD, or BSDI, or
+ systems using that convention. For details, see the analysis in the header
+ comment of ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c .
+ In theory, vwprintw and vwscanf are supposed to use the older varargs.h
interface for handling variadic argument lists (and are deprecated by X/Open
- for that reason). Linux doesn't have varargs.h, it has the newer
- X/Open-standard stdargs.h equivalent. So these functions use stdargs
- instead. This is unlikely to be a problem unless you're building ncurses on
- a System V old enough to only have varargs.h. (Solaris 2.5.1 used the
- stdarg.h binding as well).
-
-+ If you're using a BSD earlier than 4.4BSD, or a Linux old enough not to have
- a native vsscanf(3) in its library, vwscanw() will not work. You lose. (It
- should work on any System V, however). If you want to fix this, add an
+ for that reason). Many newer systems do no have varargs.h, instead they have
+ only the newer X/Open-standard stdargs.h equivalent. So these functions use
+ stdargs instead. This is unlikely to be a problem unless you're building
+ ncurses on a System V old enough to only have varargs.h. (Solaris 2.5.1 used
+ the stdarg.h binding as well).
+
++ If you're using a system old enough not to have a native vsscanf(3) in its
+ library, vwscanw() will not work. If you want to fix this, add an
implementation to ncurses/vsscanf.c.
+ The C++ binding fails to build with a few C++ compilers.
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