Re: Problem with make buildworld with existing terminfo database

And yes, I did put the symlink there myself.  But that's where it 
belongs if you want a terminfo db, I believe.

-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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