When I try to start vi under plain TTY terminal, I get a Segmentation fault (i386 platform, Athlon): $ vi Segmentation fault Surprisingly this doesn't happen under X11 (80x25 xterm), so I guess it might have to do with libncurses, which would make me very unhappy...
kjwolf@golulu:~ $ unset TERM kjwolf@golulu:~ $ vi Visual needs addressible cursor or upline capability :q kjwolf@golulu:~ $ export TERM=linux kjwolf@golulu:~ $ vi Segmentation fault kjwolf@golulu:~ $ export TERM=xterm kjwolf@golulu:~ $ vi ... dialog follows ... vi works ...
sys-libs/ncurses-5.2.20020511-r1 * app-editors/vi-3.7-r1 gcc 3.1 this works for me in an aterm with TERM="rxvt" and TERM="linux" also works in console with TERM="linux"
Indeed, ncurses-5.2.20020511-r1 fixes the problem.
Aaargh. Either vi-5.7 gets broken (new ncurses), or gdb doesn't compile (old, masked ncurses).
Could this bug actually be the same als bug 3837? By the way, a new patch rollup shell script just came out for ncurses today, downloadable at: ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.2/patch-5.2-20020901.sh.gz Ths patch is necessary for succesful compilation of ncurses 5.2 with GCC 3.2.
I'm really busy seemant and this is more of core library issue.. ncurses isn't something I know to much about so can you assign this to someone that handles system libs? That would fantastic if you could, sorry to burden you with this :o( Thanx Naz
I fixed this some time ago, and finalized it with libtermcap-compat the other day.
