Re: lib/58823: wgetscrreg is not defined

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

> >Description:
> `wgetscrreg` is not defined in NetBSD's curses, and it is used by some programs like (https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm). I noticed that pkgsrc's Makefile of mtm depends on ncurses for this reason (https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/blob/97716d7eeba2012eb90501bf49dc156e4bbe11e0/misc/mtm/Makefile#L23)
> 
> Is this intended?
> 

This call looks to be an ncurses extension.  NetBSD aims to implement
the complete curses interface as defined by SUSv2.  We try to implement
the ncurses extensions when we know about them.

> Thanks for your time!
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Attempt to build `mtm` against NetBSD's curses library.
> >Fix:
> Add the following definition of `wgetscrreg` to `curses.h`:
> 
> ```c
> int	 wgetscrreg(const WINDOW *, int *, int *);
> ```
> 

The function is not defined in the library so there is a bit more to be
done than just defining the function in the header.

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