Subject: Re: ncurses and terminfo are broken on Solaris/SunOS (Re: pkg/20881)
To: grant beattie <grant@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/04/2003 12:42:45
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:35:37PM +1000, grant beattie wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:30:18AM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> 
> > > It seems like a backward step to have to install ncurses when you
> > > don't need it.
> > 
> > Isn't screen linked against ncurses? In what package are all your
> > other terminfo entries, e.g. xterm?
> 
> Not on NetBSD, since our curses provides the necessary functions.
> 
> > ldd /usr/pkg/bin/screen
> /usr/pkg/bin/screen:
>          -lcurses.5 => /usr/lib/libcurses.so.5
>          -lutil.7 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.7
>          -lcrypt.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.0
>          -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
> 
> xterm, et al are all in the base termcap, /usr/share/misc/termcap{,.db}

Then screen should be in the base termcap, too! Please forget my
"screen terminfo entry in the ncurses package" comment. ;-)
Screen should be treated the same as the xterm termcap/info/whatever
entries.

Cheers,
  Michael.

-- 
Michael Schroeder           mlschroe@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
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