[Python-Dev] NetBSD and curses

[Bill Green]

Hi all,

I ran across this issue several months ago and filed a bug report 
(#9667).  It just came up again, and it doesn't look like anything's 
been done with the bug report, so I thought I'd post here.

In _cursesmodule.c there are a lot of preprocesser conditionals that 
test if the system is NetBSD. In my case, the issue was that the module 
built lacked the KEY_UP / _DOWN / etc. constants, but there are other 
changes as well.  This is the case even if you're compiling against 
ncurses instead of the system curses.  Αttached below is a patch against 
2.7.1 that negates the NetBSD conditionals if ncurses is present.  It 
seems to work as expected, although I haven't done any real testing.  I 
assumed this was done because NetBSD curses was missing something, but I 
looked at the headers and it seems to have most of the constants that 
the compilation directives are leaving out (A_INVIS, the aforementioned 
KEY_* constants, at least), so I'm not sure why that code isn't compiled 
in anyway.  Please let me know if I'm misunderstanding this.

Thanks,
Bill
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