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Miss Islington (bot) 82777cd024 [3.13] gh-113565: Improve and harden detection of curses dependencies (GH-119816) (#121202)
1. Use pkg-config to check for ncursesw/panelw. If that fails, use
   pkg-config to check for ncurses/panel.
2. Regardless of pkg-config output, search for curses/panel headers, so
   we're sure we have all defines in pyconfig.h.
3. Regardless of pkg-config output, check if libncurses or libncursesw
   contains the 'initscr' symbol; if it does _and_ pkg-config failed
   earlier, add the resulting -llib linker option to CURSES_LIBS.
   Ditto for 'update_panels' and PANEL_LIBS.
4. Wrap the rest of the checks with WITH_SAVE_ENV and make sure we're
   using updated LIBS and CPPFLAGS for those.

Add the PY_CHECK_CURSES convenience macro.
(cherry picked from commit f80376b129)

Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend@python.org>
2024-07-01 08:35:38 +00:00
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2023-09-06 15:54:59 +00:00

The Python C API
================

The C API is divided into these sections:

1. ``Include/``: Limited API
2. ``Include/cpython/``: CPython implementation details
3. ``Include/cpython/``, names with the ``PyUnstable_`` prefix: API that can
   change between minor releases
4. ``Include/internal/``, and any name with ``_`` prefix: The internal API

Information on changing the C API is available `in the developer guide`_

.. _in the developer guide: https://devguide.python.org/c-api/