Re: (fwd) tin fails to handle SIGWINCH

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:58:45 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.network.tin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Urs Janßen wrote:

> Any Mac OS X users around which like to have a look into this?
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Thomas Kaehn <[email protected]> -----
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Mac OS X 10.4, XCode 2.4.1.
>
> tin fails to handle SIGWINCH when configuring and compiling
> tin to use ncurses.
>
> I tried to use the ncurses library shipped with Mac OS X
> and a version found in MacPorts (I made sure that
> --enable-sigwinch is set).
>
> Mutt has no problem recognizing window changes. So I guess
> the problem could be related to tin.

The last I recalled in this area is that Mac OS X has ifdef'd SIGWINCH
to be undefined when POSIX-related definitions are turned on.  I added
a fix in xterm and ncurses last year to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined,
but "older" versions of ncurses wouldn't have the fix.

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