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Re: Building the 7.8.90 pretest on MinGW
- From: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:49:06 -0800
- Subject: Re: Building the 7.8.90 pretest on MinGW
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- References: <announce dot 20150113122445 dot 36DDE48E8A at joel dot gnat dot com> <83vbk82fkg dot fsf at gnu dot org>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> I've built the pretest using MinGW32. I found 2 issues: one with
> gnulib's time.h (reported to the gnulib list), the other with the
> recent changes in tui/. Specifically, starting "gdb -tui" fails with
> this error message:
>
> Cannot enable the TUI: error opening terminal [TERM=<unset>]
>
> This happens because the recent additions to tui.c make assumptions
> about the curses library that don't hold for the MinGW port of
> ncurses, e.g. that $TERM must be set.
>
> The patch below fixes this for me. OK to install it (master and
> branch)?
>
> 2015-01-15 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> * gdb/tui/tui.c (tui_enable) [__MINGW32__]: If the call to 'newterm'
> fails with the 1st arg NULL, try again with "unknown". Don't test
> the "cup" capability: it isn't supported by the Windows port of
> ncurses, but the Windows console driver is still capable of
> supporting TUI.
Ok by me.