Re: tigetstr() usage in init_xterm_support()

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hello, Pavel!
>
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:41 +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>
> > init_xterm_support() uses tigetstr() to retrieve the xterm mouse
> > sequnce
> > from the terminfo database. Unfortunately, the prototype for
> > tigetstr() is
> > missing which is fatal for 64-bit builds of MC as the compiler assumes
> > that
> > tigetstr() returns int (32 bits) instead of pointer to char (64 bits).
> > Now,
> > the obvious solution is to include term.h which holds the prototype
> > for
> > tigetstr(), but unfortunately this doesn't work very well as term.h
> > defines
> > a series of macros which pollute the namespace badly i.e. lines,
> > buttons,
> > etc...
>
> Please consider moving init_xterm_support() outside main.c, so that the
> namespace pollution doesn't affect other code.

I've checked in a patch.