Re: Building ncurses...a couple of questions...

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> > You can handle it by creating both /etc/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo
> > as directories, and configuring ncurses to search them in order. Then we
> > can put the linux and ansi terminfo entries in the /etc one, and everything
> > else in the /usr/lib one.
> 
> So far I have been unable to find a copy of the patch that lets you fall
> back to another directory.  However, support is already in there to allow

I don't know that the patch even exists anymore.  However, a quick and
dirty hack is only a two line change in read_entry.c.

David
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