Re: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:28:59 +0300, Anonymous wrote:
> Yuri Pankov<yuri.pankov_at_gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn<at>  freebsd.org>  writes:
>>
>>>
>>> As part of work on a new installer, I would like to update the base
>>> system dialog and libdialog to the newer one provided by Thomas Dickey
>>> (http://invisible-island.net/dialog/, ports as devel/cdialog). This is a
>>> much nicer, fuller featured version of dialog that simplifies the
>>> creation of new dialog-using tools (a longstanding impediment to a new
>>> versions of sade, sysinstall, etc.), and is under a marginally better
>>> license (LGPL2 instead of GPL2).
>> <snip>
>>
>> `make config` in ports is showing garbage when used inside the screen (built
>
> By `garbage' do you mean pseudographic symbols? They look as lines of
> `?' question marks here.  Try invoking OPTIONS like below
>
>    $ make config DIALOG='dialog --ascii-lines'
>
> Apart from OPTIONS there is also ports/154121 (--hline).

Thanks for the hints. Garbage means screen is totally unreadable, not 
minor issues with pseudographic characters (sorry, not sure how to make 
a screenshot of that). --ascii-lines helps here.

>> with default options) in syscons, en_US.UTF-8. I'll provide additional
>> testing/details if this information is not enough to reproduce.
>
> /head uses xterm emulation by default. This may or may not affect
> pseudographics.


Yuri