[fpc-devel] Bug#789091: fpc: ncurses/form unit declares internal libform objects

[peter green]

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?