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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:04:08 GMT
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <as@cmplx.uk>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   SOLVED: WAS: Re: synth: Error opening terminal: xterm
Message-ID:  <201707132104.v6DL48Og026329@jail0199.vps.exonetric.net>
In-Reply-To: <AE.0A.25924.A8E66695@dnvrco-omsmta02>

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> from Anton Shterenlikht:
>
> > I'm starting using synth, never used it before.
> > I get this error:
>
> > # synth build net/mpich
> > Error opening terminal: xterm.

It turned out I was missing a symlink:

# ls -al /etc/termcap
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  23 Jul 13 21:55 /etc/termcap -> /usr/share/misc/termcap

Works fine now.
The error is issued when ncurses tries to open xterm.

Thanks to all for advice.

Anton



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