[PosChengband] can't detect existent curses?

[darwin]

I downloaded PosChengband 7.3.5 and ran configure which says the following.

[...] - Curses No; missing libraries [...]

I have ncurses-6.4_20230610-x86_64-1 and all other programs that require curses work/compile fine.

Before anyone says anything foolish like "you don't have ncurses-dev", there's no such package on Slackware GNU/Linux because it's a development OS (so such 'extras' are already part of the main package) and Debian/ Devuan isn't.

Does PosChengband have a version control system (VCS) repository you can report issues on so I could ask what to do there?

[backwardsEric]

A likely cause is that PosChengband tries to use ncursesw5-config to determine how to compile and link with ncurses, but that's been renamed to ncursesw6-config in current versions of ncurses. Running configure with something like this:

./configure NCURSES_CONFIG=`which ncursesw6-config` [your preferred configure options here]

could help it detect ncurses (if for some reason `which nucrsesw6-config`` does not work replace it with the full path for ncursesw6-config, perhaps it is /usr/bin/64/ncursesw6-config ). Another way to work around that issue would be to modify acinclude.m4 to replace ncursesw5-config with ncursesw6-config and then run ./autogen.sh to regenerate the configure script, but that will require that you have autoconf installed.

[Gwarl]

It's been more than two years since there were last any signs of life from poschengband. I think there was an official github repo once but not any longer. Frogcomposband is an active descendant.

[darwin]

I'll try FrogComPosBand. I was able to configure PosChengBand but got the following make errors.

Successfully compiled plr_tim.c
cmd4.c: In function ‘do_cmd_time’:
cmd4.c:6199:43: warning: ‘%d’ directive writing between 1 and 11 bytes into a region of size 10 [-Wformat-overflow=]
6199 | if (day < MAX_DAYS) sprintf(day_buf, "%d", day);
| ^~
cmd4.c:6199:42: note: directive argument in the range [-2147483648, 19999]
6199 | if (day < MAX_DAYS) sprintf(day_buf, "%d", day);
| ^~~~
Successfully compiled skills.c
cmd4.c:6199:25: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 2 and 12 bytes into a destination of size 10
6199 | if (day < MAX_DAYS) sprintf(day_buf, "%d", day);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Successfully compiled main-gcu.c
Successfully compiled spells.c
xtra1.c: In function ‘window_stuff’:
xtra1.c:1563:30: warning: ‘%d’ directive writing between 1 and 10 bytes into a region of size 7 [-Wformat-overflow=]
1563 | sprintf(buf, " (x%d)", m->count);
| ^~
In function ‘_fix_message_aux’,
inlined from ‘fix_message’ at xtra1.c:1595:9,
inlined from ‘window_stuff’ at xtra1.c:4254:9:
xtra1.c:1563:26: note: directive argument in the range [2, 2147483647]
1563 | sprintf(buf, " (x%d)", m->count);
| ^~~~~~~~
xtra1.c:1563:13: note: ‘sprintf’ output between 6 and 15 bytes into a destination of size 10
1563 | sprintf(buf, " (x%d)", m->count);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Successfully compiled wiz_obj.c
Successfully compiled wizard2.c
Successfully compiled cmd4.c
Successfully compiled spells3.c
Successfully compiled mon_spell.c
Successfully compiled spoilers.c
Successfully compiled z-term.c
Successfully compiled autopick.c
Successfully compiled gf.c
Successfully compiled util.c
Successfully compiled shop.c
Successfully compiled z-doc.c
Successfully compiled wizard1.c
Successfully compiled weaponsmith.c
Successfully compiled weaponmaster.c
Successfully compiled main-x11.c
Successfully compiled dun_cell.c
Successfully compiled xtra2.c
Successfully compiled xtra1.c
Successfully compiled do-spell.c
Successfully compiled devices.c
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/d/math/src/games/roguelike/moria_angband_tome/poschengband-7.3.5-src/src'
make[2]: *** [../mk/buildsys.mk:112: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/d/math/src/games/roguelike/moria_angband_tome/poschengband-7.3.5-src/src'
make[1]: *** [mk/buildsys.mk:117: subdirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/d/math/src/games/roguelike/moria_angband_tome/poschengband-7.3.5-src'
make: *** [mk/buildsys.mk:110: all] Error 2