On 2015-06-18 08:03 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, peter green wrote:
>
>> On 17/06/15 19:06, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> Source: fpc
>>> Version: 2.6.4+dfsg-6
>>>
>>> The file fpcsrc/packages/ncurses/src/form.pp declares the objects
>>> _nc_Default_Form and _nc_Default_Field:
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | (* Default objects *)
>>> | {$ifndef darwin}
>>> | _nc_Default_Form : PFORM;cvar;external;
>>> | _nc_Default_Field : PFIELD;cvar;external;
>>> | {$else darwin}
>>> | _nc_Default_Form : PFORM external libform name '_nc_Default_Form';
>>> | _nc_Default_Field : PFIELD external libform name '_nc_Default_Field';
>>> | {$endif darwin}
>>> `----
>>>
>>> There does not seem to be a good reason to do so, those symbols are not
>>> part of the ncurses form API and will go away from the shared form
>>> library soon, see #788610.
>>> Apparently those two symbols are still in the libform.a library, so as
>>> long as fpc does not support dynamic linking (#472304) there should not
>>> be a problem,
>> This statement is incorrect, fpc doesn't dynamically link it's own
>> run time library but it most certainly can and does dynamically link
>> C libraries.
>>
>>> but please remove these useless declarations and ask
>>> upstream to do the same.
>>>
>> Freepascal upstream: any comments on this?
>
> If they are declared, it means they were in the public headers at the time of
> translation.
That's correct. According to ncurses.pp, your package is based on
ncurses 5.6.20061217, in ncurses 5.7.20091107 the form.h header was
changed to not declare those symbols anymore[1].
> If they disappear from the library, we'll remove them from the sources.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Sven
1.
http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=f5da57ad7eb397b1001e2fca9cb0e278a6564716#patch7
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