Re: Problem with make buildworld with existing terminfo database

From: Dan Hulme <d_at_diefree.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:51:40 -0800
Linux is not the only thing using terminfo.  VIM makes use of terminfo, 
and without it, certain terminals do not behave as I would like them 
to.  AFAIK, it is not using Linux compat to take advantage of this.

-Dan

Doug White wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Dan Hulme wrote:
>
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>>I happen to have a terminfo database installed in
>>[/usr/share/misc/terminfo].  It really is just a symlink to
>>[/usr/compat/linux/usr/share/terminfo].  Therefore, my build failed, and
>>didn't give me any helpful information when it did so.  After tracking
>>down the culprit scripts, I still didn't know what was wrong, because I
>>didn't understand how ncurses deals with terminfo/termcap. Now that I
>>understand it, I think that something should be changed to deal with
>>this possibility.
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>>
>
>Did you put this there yourself? Why not just move it in to
>/usr/compat/linux, if linux is the only thing using terminfo?  Linux apps
>will still find it by the /compat/linux redirection and it stays safely
>hidden from everything else.
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>
Received on Wed Dec 17 2003 - 11:50:01 UTC

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