ports/177722: Change request: Add terminfo database to linux_base-*

[Jason Bacon]

>Number:         177722
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Change request: Add terminfo database to linux_base-*
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 08 20:40:02 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jason Bacon
>Release:        8.3-RELEASE
>Organization:
Acadix Consulting, LLC
>Environment:
FreeBSD sculpin.jbacon.dyndns.org 8.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE #0: Mon Apr  9 21:23:18 UTC 2012     root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
Linux Matlab runs well on FreeBSD, but when running with the -nodesktop command-line flag, it crashes after issuing the error message "setupterm() failed!".

The error is caused by Matlab's inability to locate a terminfo database, which by default should reside in /usr/share/terminfo.

I have developed a matlab-installer script and port which could install a terminfo database, but there are probably other Linux applications suffering the same fate, so it would probably be better to have it in linux_base.

>How-To-Repeat:
1) Install Matlab.

(Installer scripts available at http://personalpages.tds.net/~jwbacon/Ports/distfiles/)

2) matlab -nodesktop

>Fix:
Install a terminfo database at /compat/linux/usr/share/terminfo.

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