[issue6848] curses module build failure (ncurses 5.7)
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Sep 6 22:35:16 CEST 2009
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
I asked on the ncurses-bugs mailing list about this problem, and got an
immediate and helpful reply from the ncurses maintainer (Thomas Dickey).
It turns out that this *is* a Mac-specific problem: in Snow Leopard the
Apple-supplied ncurses.h defines NCURSES_OPAQUE to 1 (if it isn't already
defined) by default, while a standard ncurses install defines
NCURSES_OPAQUE to be 0 by default. Furthermore, Thomas Dickey has said
that he'll add an is_pad function for later use, so if the WINDOW flags do
disappear or move in a future version of ncurses then there should be an
easy workaround available at that time.
So just #defining NCURSES_OPAQUE to 0 for OS X >= 10.6 seems a reasonable
way to fix this for now.
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