Rick Rankin wrote: > In the course of doing a complete reinstall from scratch, I discovered a set of > circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2. As distributed, > /usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm is a symlink to ../x/xterm-color which is a > symlink to ../n/nxterm. This can be verified by running > > tar -tvjf terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2 | grep nxterm > > which produces > > lrwxrwxrwx cwilson/None 0 2002-05-08 11:40:45 usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm > -> ../x/xterm-color > lrwxrwxrwx cwilson/None 0 2002-05-08 11:40:20 > usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color -> ../n/nxterm > > The problem can be resolved simply enough by downloading the ncurses source,
No no no no no. cygwin's terminfo is forked from ncurses -- specifically so that I can fix / update these sorts of problems without forcing people to redownload all those libraries and binaries. > applying the ncurses-5.2-8.patch file, removing /usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm > and /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color, and recompiling the terminfo database. > I'd supply a patch, but there's really nothing to patch -- the tar file just > needs to be updated. Also, terminfo-5.2-2 changed in only one respect from terminfo-5.2-1: it now uses the XFree86-4.2.0 terminal definitions for xterm-*. NOT the ncurses-provided definitions. However, I still had to hand edit some stuff; it looks like I missed a cross-reference. Will fix shortly. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/