Bug 12288

Summary:	ncurses 5.3 fails to compile with gcc Ada support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mikko Ala-Fossi <maf>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Nick Hadaway <grandmasterlinux>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.3
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	11204
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Description Mikko Ala-Fossi 2002-12-17 01:55:45 UTC

If Ada language support is enabled from the gcc 3.2.x compiler
(see bug #11204), the ncurses 5.3 fails to compile.

During configure the ncurses library checks the version number of the
Ada compiler that traditionally was > 3.10 when ACT gnat compiler was used,
in order to compile the Ada generics correctly. The gcc compiler reports
version number 3.2.x that is smaller that 3.10 and fails to compile the Ada
generics.

Fix: following ncurses patch fixes the problem

ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.3/ncurses-5.3-20021214.patch.gz

and it should come with the next release of the ncurses.

Comment 1 Mikko Ala-Fossi 2002-12-17 02:12:45 UTC

In the meantime, it could be worthwhile to add "--without-ada" to
the configure.

Comment 2 Nick Hadaway 2002-12-17 13:40:35 UTC

Is this patch specifically for the ada support or is it just a pull from cvs 
on 12/14/2002?

Comment 3 Mikko Ala-Fossi 2002-12-18 02:24:20 UTC

It is just pull from the ncurses CVS repository, so it is not Ada specific.
That is why I am not suggesting that we should immediately patch our
release ncurses ebuild, but rather have "--without-ada" until we have upgraded
to the version that has the fixes in the patch.

Comment 4 Nick Hadaway 2003-01-01 23:19:32 UTC

I have updated ncurses-5.3-r1 to specify --without-ada during configure.  As 
ada support is added to gcc I will then release an updated ncurses release 
5.3.1?  or a cvs pull at that time.