Fix GCC 5.x preprocessor failure Building ncurses 5.9 with GCC 5.x fails with a syntax error, caused by earlier preprocessing. This failure is more likely when building for host (e.g. host-ncurses) that recently updated to GCC 5.x. This patch is taken from the following link (more information is also available here): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-trac/U31shviuqzk Signed-off-by: Doug Kehn Index: b/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh =================================================================== --- a/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh +++ b/ncurses/base/MKlib_gen.sh @@ -62,7 +62,15 @@ if test "${LC_MESSAGES+set}" = set; then if test "${LC_CTYPE+set}" = set; then LC_CTYPE=C; export LC_CTYPE; fi if test "${LC_COLLATE+set}" = set; then LC_COLLATE=C; export LC_COLLATE; fi -preprocessor="$1 -DNCURSES_INTERNALS -I../include" +# Work around "unexpected" output of GCC 5.1.0's cpp w.r.t. #line directives +# by simply suppressing them: +case `$1 -dumpversion 2>/dev/null` in + 5.[01].*) # assume a "broken" one + preprocessor="$1 -P -DNCURSES_INTERNALS -I../include" + ;; + *) + preprocessor="$1 -DNCURSES_INTERNALS -I../include" +esac AWK="$2" USE="$3"