Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:41:40 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog Message-ID: <4D39C554.8060907@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86wrlyi2sk.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4D25136A.4070107@freebsd.org> <loom.20110121T165440-554@post.gmane.org> <86wrlyi2sk.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:28:59 +0300, Anonymous wrote: > Yuri Pankov<yuri.pankov@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
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