Re: Problem with make buildworld with existing terminfo database

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Dan Hulme wrote:

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

Hm. Its an interesting problem, although hard to fix since we don't want
to disallow use of terminfo for normal use.  Please submit a PR on this so
it can get a look-see, and include your suggested fix, preferably in a
patch format.

>
> -Dan
>
> Doug White wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Dan Hulme wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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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