Re: [bug] tic -x and use= building blocks

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Alain Bench wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    Ncurses-5.5-20060401 (last Saturday patch). Some useless (and
> harmless) data is appended to a compiled terminfo entry which is use=d
> by another entry, if the later has custom extended or commented out
> capabilities.

thanks (will see)

>    Example test.src attached, defining 3 entries:
>
> - test1 is a clean reference
> - test2 is identical, or rather should be
> - test3 uses test2 and adds AX extended bolean
>
>    Compile with "tic -x test.src", and "less ~/.terminfo/t/test?" shows
> that test2 is not identical to test1 as expected, but has appended data.
> The same happens with "tic -a". The effect is cumulative.
>
>
> Bye!    Alain.
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