[ CC'ing ncurses maintainers. ] On 2010-03-24 18:21 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> (24/03/2010): >> As can be seen in build logs, configure bits: >> | amd64: checking for terminfo... yes >> | hppa: checking for terminfo... no >> >> I don't know why that's the case yet, but I might look into this >> later today. > > Scary. > > hppa: > | $ ncurses5-config --terminfo > | /usr/share/terminfo > | $ ls -l $(ncurses5-config --terminfo) > | ls: cannot access /usr/share/terminfo: No such file or directory > > on a regular-non-broken-non-hppa system: > | $ ncurses5-config --terminfo > | /etc/terminfo This seems to be a fallout of the fix for #509919. FWIW, I get /usr/share/terminfo here (on i386) as well. > For the record, that config script is a shell script generated from > ncurses's misc/ncurses-config.in, using stuff gathered through > misc/run_tic.in, which is probably where one's going to have a look in > order find what exactly causes this. I'm not sure whether I'm going to > have time and motivation to do so. Maybe it would help if we shipped /usr/share/terminfo in ncurses-base again? There used to be symlinks to the files in /lib/terminfo there, but I removed them as libncurses does not need them (the library looks in /etc/terminfo, /lib/terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
