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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:14:42 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NCurses and cons25
Message-ID:  <19980118211442.02075@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980118212901.006a7da8@wolfepub.com>; from "Matthew Hagerty" on Sun Jan 18 21:29:01 GMT 1998
References:  <3.0.1.32.19980118212901.006a7da8@wolfepub.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 18), Matthew Hagerty said:
> Greetings,
> 
>    I am trying to use NCurses-4.1 under FreeBSD 2.2.5 running on a 486.
> The package compiled fine, but when I try to run *any* of the test programs
> that come with the package, I get to following error:
> 
> Error opening terminal: cons25

Probably due to ncurses defaulting to using terminfo, where FreeBSD
uses termcap.  My configure line for ncurses-4.1 (patched to current
version) is:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --enable-termcap --enable-getcap \
 --enable-hashmap --disable-overwrite --enable-scroll-hints \
 --with-shared --with-profile 

,which enables termcap parsing, disables terminfo creation, enables
shlib and profile library creation, and enables some scrolling
optimization code.

	-Dan Nelson



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