From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 7 14: 9:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wemm.org (12-232-135-171.client.attbi.com [12.232.135.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2883937B405 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 14:09:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g47L94429718 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 14:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B15A138CC; Tue, 7 May 2002 14:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Bakul Shah Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tic/tconv & friends In-Reply-To: <200205071905.PAA02068@marlborough.cnchost.com> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 14:09:04 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020507210904.B15A138CC@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bakul Shah wrote: > I didn't notice tic & tconv are broken due to working old > copies on my machine until someone on the Octree mailing list > complained [Octree is a neat 3D CAD package which runs in > Linux emulation mode -- unfortunately available in binary > only]. > > I noticed Peter Wemm killed src/lib/libtmyinfo quite a while > ago. The log message says > > Ensure libmytinfo stays dead.. I originally left it here so that we might > be able to build the old shared versions rather than taking a binary for > the compat area, but that seems to have caused confusion. > > For now I will just send this guy a previously compiled > xterm.terminfo but my question is, is libmytinfo going to > remain dead? If so, how does one run programs that want > terminfo under FreeBSD? If terminfo is going to remain > broken, may be the related man pages should be removed. Our native curses library supports both terminfo and termcap, so there is not need to bring libmytinfo back. The Linux binary will not care what libraries FreeBSD uses, but as you point out, we do not actually ship tic and infocmp and friends. There is a ncurses port/package that does have tic/infocmp etc. The compiled format is the same for them all. We can probably build tic/infocmp on FreeBSD as well if there's demand for it. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message