Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:28:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: unga888@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall compilation issue Message-ID: <200808130928.m7D9SPmG027548@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <268893.22415.qm@web57009.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello,
Unga wrote:
> > Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> > > Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > What is wrong at my end?
> > > >
> > > > Note, I linked the rtermcap with ncursesw
> > > > libraries, can that be the cause? Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Yes, that's the cause. Why did you do that?
> > >
> > > FreeBSD's ncurses port contains a patch so the
> > > tgetent() function (which is used by rtermcap)
> > > returns the actual termcap entry in the buffer.
> > > The original ncurses code (which is terminfo-
> > > based) doesn't do that.
> > >
> > > When you linked rtermcap with the wrong library,
> > > you restored the original behaviour of tgetent(),
> > > so the output of rtermcap was empty, so file2c
> > > produced invalid source.
> >
> > Sorry for my late reply on this. I was not well during
> > weekend, an eye ache due to over work :(
Sorry to hear that. I hope you're better now.
> > Here is the situation at my end, no matter whether I link
> > with ncurses widec libs or non-widec libs, its still return
> > the same code as above I mentioned.
> >
> > Possible causes can be:
> > 1. The way I compile and install ncurses is not correct.
> > 2. OR some essential files required are missing
> > 3. OR there can be an other option
Maybe my first response wasn't clear enough. So let
me explain it again: To compile sysinstall correctly
you must use the standard ncurses library from the
base system. Anything else WILL NOT WORK.
I already explained the reason for that in detail in
my previous response (quoted above).
> So the question is, do ncurses and ncurses-devel ports
> do the same thing as ncurses in base system for the
> following statement?
> TERMCAP=/usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/../../share/termcap/termcap.src ./rtermcap ansi | file2c 'const char termcap_ansi[] = {' ',0};' >> makedevs.c
No, they don't do the same thing. You could have
saved yourself some time if you had read my first
response more carefully.
Best regards
Oliver
--
Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M.
Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung:
secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün-
chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart
FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd
$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.pl count=1
$ file test.pl
test.pl: perl script text executable
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200808130928.m7D9SPmG027548>