Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:34:07 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> To: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> Cc: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for testing/comments -- import of new dialog/libdialog Message-ID: <AANLkTi=F2_rcbseLr1kkuF4aD5C%2BMGuZVX-U_Db_bKxi@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D39C554.8060907@gmail.com> References: <4D25136A.4070107@freebsd.org> <loom.20110121T165440-554@post.gmane.org> <86wrlyi2sk.fsf@gmail.com> <4D39C554.8060907@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:28:59 +0300, Anonymous wrote: >> >> Yuri Pankov<yuri.pankov@gmail.com> =A0writes: >> >>> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn<at> =A0freebsd.org> =A0writes: >>> >>>> >>>> As part of work on a new installer, I would like to update the base >>>> system dialog and libdialog to the newer one provided by Thomas Dickey >>>> (http://invisible-island.net/dialog/, ports as devel/cdialog). This is= a >>>> much nicer, fuller featured version of dialog that simplifies the >>>> creation of new dialog-using tools (a longstanding impediment to a new >>>> versions of sade, sysinstall, etc.), and is under a marginally better >>>> license (LGPL2 instead of GPL2). >>> >>> <snip> >>> >>> `make config` in ports is showing garbage when used inside the screen >>> (built >> >> By `garbage' do you mean pseudographic symbols? They look as lines of >> `?' question marks here. =A0Try invoking OPTIONS like below >> >> =A0 $ make config DIALOG=3D'dialog --ascii-lines' >> >> Apart from OPTIONS there is also ports/154121 (--hline). > > Thanks for the hints. Garbage means screen is totally unreadable, not min= or > issues with pseudographic characters (sorry, not sure how to make a > screenshot of that). --ascii-lines helps here. script would help. >>> with default options) in syscons, en_US.UTF-8. I'll provide additional >>> testing/details if this information is not enough to reproduce. >> >> /head uses xterm emulation by default. This may or may not affect >> pseudographics. Thanks, -Garrett
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