Bug#509919: ncurses-base: the tabset directory in compiled terminal descriptions is incorrect

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>]

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2008-12-27 19:15 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > Package: ncurses-base
> > Version: 5.7+20081213-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Reviewing Ubuntu #200773, which reports this problem,
> > I checked my Debian/testing and see that infocmp vt220 shows
> >
> > 	if=/etc/tabset/vt100,
> >
> > That directory does not exist.
>
> True.  I haven't analyzed all the details yet, but the problem appears
> to be that ncurses is configured with
> "--with-default-terminfo-dir=/etc/terminfo", and your misc/gen_edit.sh
> script changes the location of the tabset directory to /etc/tabset then.
>
> Any ideas?

I could add another configure-script tweak to make the location of tabset 
explicit.

Normally tabset's under the same directory root as terminfo; however it 
seems that Debian's providing for a mini-terminfo database.

(The "linux" terminal description doesn't use this capability, so it's not 
that noticeable).

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