[RFA] Avoid infinite height for mingw GDB

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:55:42 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > How about if we abandon the windows-termcap.c kludge entirely, and
> > instead use a MinGW build of ncurses?  It builds out of the box, and
> > you can find a precompiled binary here:
> > 
> >   http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ncurses-5.9-w32-bin.zip/download
> 
> Is it the standard ncurses that now builds out of the box on MinGW,
> or a modified version?

There's a couple of small changes there (see DIFFS in the source zip),
but they are not necessary to build ncurses out of the box.

> > Any objections?
> 
> It makes building GDB from sources a little harder on Windows/MinGW,
> but I think that would be fine.

If no one beats me to it, I'll try to build GDB with ncurses when I
have time.

> In the meantime, if it's a larger project, I suggest we can put the hack
> I provided in place. I don't think it'll harm us, and it should solve
> Pierre's issue while we work on using ncurses.

I don't object.