Summary: | xterm-196 depends on libtermcap, but the depend is not in ebuild | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Elan Ruusamäe <glen> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo X packagers <x11> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | dickey |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Elan Ruusamäe
2004-11-03 03:07:21 UTC
Try running revdep-rebuild (or alternatively, emerge xterm without the -k option) and see if you still have problems running xterm. i can not compile there. and i don't want to compile there :) the problem i was able to resolve by uninstalling the libtermcap on compile host, then it produced xterm without libtermcap linkage. Thomas, would it be advisable to distribute our xterm without --enable-tcap-query and linking against termcap and instead to ncurses? The only advantage of linking with libtermcap is if one had some old application that uses termcap and needed to have its screen size specified in the $TERMCAP file. (Also the backspace setting, but I'm not aware of anything that uses that feature). The tcap-query feature would work with ncurses (and I have been told that vim uses this feature). Thomas, in that case, I don't suppose a request for a configure flag switch for termcap vs. ncurses would be out of order, would it? That might be easiest rather than patching it out? I suppose so (no one's asked for it, but adding it would not be hard, and patching it would be ugly ;-) punting to Donnie and the gang, while I'm on LOA for 45-90 days. Any dev interested in picking up maintenance for xterm and related sundry (utempter)? I'm adding a --disable-full-tgetent option in xterm patch #198 to address the choice between ncurses and termcap libraries. Added xterm-199, which fixes this. Thanks Thomas. |