Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 05:10:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/15418: tput(1) doesn't work with new libncurses.so.5 Message-ID: <200206021210.g52CA7U86578@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/15418; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/15418: tput(1) doesn't work with new libncurses.so.5 Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 13:07:30 +0100 Add to the audit trail a message I had forgotten about: In message <20020122124724.A68521@fit.vutbr.cz>, Cejka Rudolf writes: >iedowse@FreeBSD.org wrote (2002/01/21): >> Synopsis: tput(1) doesn't work with new libncurses.so.5 >> >> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >> State-Changed-By: iedowse >> State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 21 13:47:39 PST 2002 >> State-Changed-Why: >> >> Does this problem still exist? >> >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15418 > >Well, it seems that I should get up now... > >Right now I have updated my system to FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: >Tue Jan 22 11:12:25 CET 2002. > >* Yes, the problem is still here and transition to libncurses.so.5 > is still just partial without supporting utilities. Unfortunatelly, > libncurses.so.5 is currently in both -current and -stable, so at > this time it is not a problem just in -current, but in -stable too. > >* You can test this problem very easily. Run command "tput cm 0 0", > which should move cursor to position 0, 0, and you will see > additional error messages: > >tput: unknown % escape `p' for capability `cm' >tput: unknown % escape `p' for capability `cm' > >* Furthermore, because of similar problems due to changes in > libncurses.so.5 tercap compilation utility tconv (alias tic > and captoinfo) has been disconnected from build. You can > see /usr/src/usr.bin/Makefile. It is very interesting that > this utility isn't missing to anybody except me ;-) > >* I do not understand if maintainer (is it you, peter?) wanted > to compile these utilities directly from /usr/src/contrib/ncurses > (tput/tic/infocmp) and forgot on this or he wanted to update > standard BSD sources and does not have time or he does not know > about this??? > >-- >Rudolf Cejka <cejkar at fit.vutbr.cz> http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~cejkar >Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology >Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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