Re: Building the 7.8.90 pretest on MinGW

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

Sorry for the delay.

On 01/19/2015 05:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Thanks.  I'd like to hear from Pedro as well, as the changes which
> caused this were committed by him.

This is OK with me.

A couple questions though:

The "cup" check is there to make sure that e.g., starting GDB
in a shell within emacs doesn't result in a messed up session.
Did you try that?  I imagine that cases like when stdin is a
pipe, like e.g., when starting mingw gdb in a cygwin shell
or in a cygwin ssh session, may result in a messed up screen.

I mildly wonder whether pdcurses works here as is without
this patch, thus whether the #ifdef check should distinguish
ncurses from pdcurses somehow.  IIUC, some people build with
pdcurses instead of GNU ncurses.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves