On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:09:23PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Friday, August 8, 2003 at 19:33:18 (+0300), Juha K Kallio wrote: ]
> > Subject: Installing ncurses/terminfo
> >
> > How am I supposed to use terminfo after installing the devel/ncurses package?
> > I'm not quite familiar with the system, so what exactly happens when I try eg.
> > 'TERM=xterm-color'? It just says that it can't find a terminal definition, but
> > terminfo certainly has one.
> 
> Well since all the curses-using programs in the base OS are using the
> native termcap support it doesn't work to just define one global TERM
> value in your environment, at least not when you want to use a different
> non-native terminal type with the ncurses application(s).
> 
> You need to set TERM explicitly just for the ncurses-using applications
> if you need/want to use a different terminal type with them than you
> would use by default with the rest of your NetBSD session.  For example:
> 
> 	env TERM=xterm-color zile
> 
> (zile is the only ncurses-using application I currently have installed)
> 
> You can do this transparently if you write little wrapper shell aliases
> or shell functions or shell scripts for all your ncurses applications.
> 
> E.g. with /bin/sh or /bin/ksh in your ~/.profile:
> 
> 	alias zile='TERM=xterm-color /usr/pkg/bin/zile'
> 
> (of course that assumes you'll be sitting behind an X11 session with a
> colour display and a running a colour-capable xterm to connect to your
> shell session when you type "zile" :-)
> 
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I've already tried setting TERM separately for programs linked against ncurses,
but that gives exactly the same error. But since I'm using zsh, which is a 
pkgsrc package, is there a way to compile it against ncurses? The only option 
listed in bsd.pkg.defaults.mk for zsh just concerns static binaries.