Re: [patch/rfa] configure check for curses library

[Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>]

> Does the TUI code in GDB actually use wattr_on or any symbols that
> reference wattr_on?  If not, we could defeat curses implementations
> that don't have wattr_on, but are otherwise good enough for what GDB
> needs.

tausq@hiauly3:~/src/build/gdb$ nm tui-wingeneral.o |grep wattr
         U wattr_off
         U wattr_on

this comes from box_win(). there's a call to wattron that is getting
translated into wattr_on(). 

actually, the problem seems to be:
on this particular HPUX system where i'm doing the gdb build,
there are both ncurses headers and native HPUX curses headers. The
include search path for GCC is such that the build
picks up the ncurses curses.h header which does the wattron() ->
wattr_on() translation. :-(

so i guess my fix is not really correct; we should make configure use
the correct header. But how?

randolph
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