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authorDavide Rizzo <sorcio@gmail.com>2024-05-04 21:41:47 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2024-05-04 21:41:47 (GMT)
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gh-109617: fix ncurses incompatibility on macOS with Xcode 15 (#111258)
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ɓukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
Diffstat (limited to 'Include')
-rw-r--r--Include/py_curses.h19
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Include/py_curses.h b/Include/py_curses.h
index e46b08e..a51d998 100644
--- a/Include/py_curses.h
+++ b/Include/py_curses.h
@@ -23,10 +23,16 @@
# endif
#endif
-#if !defined(HAVE_CURSES_IS_PAD) && defined(WINDOW_HAS_FLAGS)
-/* The following definition is necessary for ncurses 5.7; without it,
- some of [n]curses.h set NCURSES_OPAQUE to 1, and then Python
- can't get at the WINDOW flags field. */
+#if defined(WINDOW_HAS_FLAGS) && defined(__APPLE__)
+/* gh-109617, gh-115383: we can rely on the default value for NCURSES_OPAQUE on
+ most platforms, but not on macOS. This is because, starting with Xcode 15,
+ Apple-provided ncurses.h comes from ncurses 6 (which defaults to opaque
+ structs) but can still be linked to older versions of ncurses dynamic
+ libraries which don't provide functions such as is_pad() to deal with opaque
+ structs. Setting NCURSES_OPAQUE to 0 is harmless in all ncurses releases to
+ this date (provided that a thread-safe implementation is not required), but
+ this might change in the future. This fix might become irrelevant once
+ support for macOS 13 or earlier is dropped. */
#define NCURSES_OPAQUE 0
#endif
@@ -39,7 +45,10 @@
#ifdef HAVE_NCURSES_H
/* configure was checking <curses.h>, but we will
use <ncurses.h>, which has some or all these features. */
-#if !defined(WINDOW_HAS_FLAGS) && !(NCURSES_OPAQUE+0)
+#if !defined(WINDOW_HAS_FLAGS) && \
+ (NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH+0 < 20070303 || !(NCURSES_OPAQUE+0))
+/* the WINDOW flags field was always accessible in ncurses prior to 20070303;
+ after that, it depends on the value of NCURSES_OPAQUE. */
#define WINDOW_HAS_FLAGS 1
#endif
#if !defined(HAVE_CURSES_IS_PAD) && NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH+0 >= 20090906