From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 12:50:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BFD16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797A543D31 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:50:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from d@diefree.com) Received: from diefree.com ([24.6.31.57]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003121720495901600rlkkne>; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:49:59 +0000 Message-ID: <3FE0C1DC.6030108@diefree.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:51:40 -0800 From: Dan Hulme User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031206 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <3FDEBDC4.5090409@diefree.com> <20031217091554.J14934@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20031217091554.J14934@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with make buildworld with existing terminfo database X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:50:01 -0000 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: > > > >>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. > > >