Re: Help with libcurses and lynx under NetBSD-9 and -current?

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 27/01/2021 17:52, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2101270901410.7671%faeroes.freeshell.org@localhost>,
> RVP  <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> > This might be due to the fact that window(1) relies on setting a
> > custom TERMCAP environment variable to inform programs running
> > under it of the term. capabilities it supports, and the curses
> > library no longer makes use of that.
> >
> > With ncurses, building it with the `--enable-termcap' option
> > makes it use the TERMCAP variable if it set in the environment.
> >
> > The ncurses(w) in pkgsrc is not built with that option, so, I
> > compiled the latest ncurses from source with that option added
> > and lynx -show_cursor worked just fine under window(1).
> >
> > -RVP
>
> I think we can make our libterminfo do the same by shuffling a few ifdefs
> around :-)

No need for that.

TERMINFO_COMPILE is defined unless built SMALLPROG

So $TERMCAP is respected in the from the environement by default after 
installation. See terminfo(5) for more details as $TERMINFO will take precedence 
is also set.

Roy