Re: Ncurses on Mac OS X / Darwin

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Julian Mayer wrote:

> Hello
> The build of ncurses-5.2 on my powerpc-apple-darwin1.3.3 system went
> without problems but the install has a error while trying to build the
> terminfo database...any hints how i could get it to work?
> Thanks, Julian

I made a change to treat that condition as a warning rather than an error
(collision between names on a case-independent filesystem).  It's in the
post-5.2 patches under ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/5.2/ (the patch*sh
file is the rolloup - see my faq).


>
> ** Building terminfo database, please wait...
> ** adjusting tabset paths
> Running tic to install /usr/local/share/terminfo ...
>
>          You may see messages regarding unknown capabilities, e.g., AX.
>          These are extended terminal capabilities which can be compiled
>          using
>                  tic -x
>          Read the INSTALL document before doing this - it can cause
>          problems for older ncurses applications.
>
> "/tmp/19768", line 395, col 3, terminal 'ecma+color': unknown capability
> 'AX'
> "/tmp/19768", line 3193, col 40, terminal 'screen': unknown capability
> 'G0'
> "/tmp/19768", line 3212, col 59, terminal 'screen': unknown capability
> 'E0'
> "/tmp/19768", line 3213, col 12, terminal 'screen': unknown capability
> 'S0'
> "/tmp/19768", line 3165, terminal 'eterm': name multiply defined.
> "/tmp/19768", line 12958, terminal 'NCR260VT300WPP': can't link
> N/NCR260VT300WPP to n/ncr260vt300wpp
> ? tic could not build /usr/local/share/terminfo
> make[1]: *** [install.data] Error 1
> make: *** [install.data] Error 2
>
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