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



On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:

On 2009-08-30 16:24 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:

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.

That would be appreciated.

I just made a note (probably will resolve next week's patch).


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

The bulk of the terminfo files are in the ncurses-term package, all
under /usr/share/terminfo; ncurses-base only provides the most common
ones, files under /lib/terminfo and symlinks to them under
/usr/share/terminfo.  The /etc/terminfo dir is reserved for local
terminfo descriptions.

Sven


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