On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Isaac wrote:
> If you've installed CDE on Linux, you probably saw the error message
> "Unable to compile dtterm.ti"
> This is usually incorrect.
> What's really going on is:
> tic successfully compiles dtterm.ti, placing output
> in /etc/terminfo/d/dtterm
> The script looks in /usr/share{,/lib}/terminfo/d/dtterm, and doesn't
> find it.
> If it had, the script would have chown'ed it to to bin:bin, a policy
> that is not suitable for many environments.
>
> I'm thinking that the part after tic should be disabled. It relies on
> system-specific settings to perform changes that are inappropriate on
> many systems.
> This will incidentally remove the last error from configRun -e
>
It also seem reasonable to assume that if tic *really* fails, it will
return an error (non-0)... I would be ok with removing these invalid
'after-checks'.
> (Note: tic -s -v10 gives these errors:
> ===
> $ tic -s -v10 /usr/dt/config/dtterm.ti
> "/usr/dt/config/dtterm.ti", line 1, terminal 'dtterm': Conflicting key
> definitions (using the last) ... KEY_F(15) is the same as KEY_HELP
> "/usr/dt/config/dtterm.ti", line 1, terminal 'dtterm':
> exit_attribute_mode differs from sgr(0) exit_attribute_mode="\e[0m"
> sgr(0)="\e[0m\^O"
> "/usr/dt/config/dtterm.ti", line 1, 'dtterm' tic: symbol lookup error:
> tic: undefined symbol: _tracef
> ===
> and exits with $? = 127)
>
Hmm, my terminfo-foo skills are rusty, but I think the ^O in sgr0
means to switch out of extended character mode, which I believe is
desireable for sgr (Set Graphic Rendition)... Not sure why it thinks
sgr0 and exit_attribute_mode must be thae same. No idea what _tracef
is, and I thought HELP was typically F1 on pc-style kb mappings. Does
tic exit with an error without the -s -v10 options? Could it be that
is why this check for /usr/share{,/lib}/terminfo/d/dtterm was added?
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