From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 7 20:03:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA23573 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 20:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23568 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 20:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id XAA17087; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:03:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id XAA15852; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:03:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 23:03:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Eric S. Raymond" cc: current@freebsd.org, Ncurses Mailing List Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses In-Reply-To: <199604072339.TAA14935@locke.ccil.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Note: This is being CC'd into current@freebsd.org... On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Odd question, but, if I wish to totally disable terminfo and > > use termcap-only for ncurses, how would I go about doing that? I've > > looked through configure for any options, and found none, but I'm > > assuming that there is a way of doing this? > > There's no way to do this, nor am I interested in creating one. I'm trying > to kill off termcap, not give it new life. > > Why on earth do you want this? Trying to get FreeBSD upgraded from 1.8.6 to 1.9.9e, but have been informed that it has to be terminfo-less first. What if I compile ncurses but don't install a terminfo database to go along with it? Just /etc/termcap? Will it still work, or will it try to install a personalized .terminfo directory compiled from the /etc/termcap entry? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc