Problem with make buildworld with existing terminfo database

Thomas Dickey dickey at radix.net
Fri Dec 19 03:22:08 PST 2003


Dan Hulme <d at diefree.com> wrote:
> The compilation of [/usr/src/usr.sbin/sysinstall] depends on a small
> program called "rtermcap".  The program is used to generate a file
> called "makedevs.c" from several termcap entries (ansi, xterm, cons25,
> etc.).

...which in turn is a broken way to build.  The straightforward way
would use infocmp to generate the required information.  But tic & infocmp
appear to be omitted from the ncurses configuration.

> Please CC any responses to d at diefree.com, as I am not subscribed.

I already did & got no reply.

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