SOLVED: WAS: Re: synth: Error opening terminal: xterm

[Anton Shterenlikht]

> from Anton Shterenlikht:
>
> > I'm starting using synth, never used it before.
> > I get this error:
>
> > # synth build net/mpich
> > Error opening terminal: xterm.

It turned out I was missing a symlink:

# ls -al /etc/termcap
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  23 Jul 13 21:55 /etc/termcap -> /usr/share/misc/termcap

Works fine now.
The error is issued when ncurses tries to open xterm.

Thanks to all for advice.

Anton