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Date:      Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:28:59 +0300
From:      Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To:        Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog
Message-ID:  <86wrlyi2sk.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110121T165440-554@post.gmane.org> (Yuri Pankov's message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:00:00 %2B0000 (UTC)")
References:  <4D25136A.4070107@freebsd.org> <loom.20110121T165440-554@post.gmane.org>

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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).

> 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.



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