From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 13:26:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CD037B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872DF43E52 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:26:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0451.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.196] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17SO2z-0006tO-00; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:26:49 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2C9854.C2A80179@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:25:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Dupre Cc: Peter Elsner , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminfo/termcap and cygwin References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020710091744.00a434e0@mail.servplex.com> <69273909140.20020710163156@alexdupre.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex Dupre wrote: > PE> cd to /usr/ports/devel/ncurses > PE> Comment out the following 3 lines: > PE> Save the Makefile, and type: make && make install && make clean > PE> Terminfo (including the db's) should now install fine... > > Yes, but this is a work-around. If terminfo is needed, it should be > installed by default. Modifying a port esplicitely forbidden for 4.x > releases is not a clean way. Terminfo is never needed, since all terminfo data can be represented in termcap. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message