less-381-1: doesn't use terminfo?
Martin Dorey
mdorey@bluearc.com
Tue Aug 23 07:38:00 GMT 2005
Is it deliberate and desirable to have less(1) not be terminfo-aware?
Splitting the terminal capability database into several files certainly
makes it easy to install the entry for a new terminal type.
Background:
I've been porting a terminal emulator
(http://www.jessies.org/~enh/software/terminator/) to Cygwin. It has
its own terminfo entry which it installs. After doing this, less(1)
still produces the dreaded:
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
I think I've tracked this down to less.exe not being linked to the
terminfo-aware ncurses library:
$ cygcheck /usr/bin/less.exe
C:/cygwin/bin/less.exe
C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll
C:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL
C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL
C:/cygwin/bin\cygpcre-0.dll
$
If I build with libncurses-devel installed, less's configure script
notices, I get a dependency on C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses-8.dll and the
resulting less.exe works fine with "terminator".
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Martin's Outlook, BlueArc Engineering
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