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Re: ncurses-5.9-20120825.patch.gz
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: ncurses-5.9-20120825.patch.gz |
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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:04:08 -0400 |
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 02:25:39PM +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote:
> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120825 - Thomas E. Dickey
>>
> [SNIP]
> After implementation of datarootdir (patch from 20120811) some TERMINFO
> paths are not correct:
>
> $ grep share include/*
> include/ncurses_cfg.h:#define TERMINFO_DIRS "/share/terminfo"
> include/ncurses_cfg.h:#define TERMINFO "/share/terminfo"
Gabriele Balducci reported this a couple of hours ago (with a suggested
fix). I'll see if I can finish resolving this today.
> May be input has to be changed to use datarootdir instead datadir as
> before or datadir to be dereferenced once during configure ?
what I saw from the previous message was that I'd overlooked a case
where I have to force re-evaluation of a shell variable.
(didn't notice here, since I have TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS set most
of the time).
> As work-around --datadir should be set.
> Without work-around terminfo is installed into [PREFIX]/share/terminfo but:
> $ xmas
> Error opening terminal: xterm.
>
>
> Another strange issue is that with above paths test like xmas build for
> mingw* host crash . If build is with --datadir , sample could be run
> even without installation of terminfo database. I could not figure
> difference as in both cases terminfo path does not exists.
will see (hadn't revisited windows for a few weeks)
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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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