terminfo packaging glitch?

Fergus Daly fergusd84@outlook.com
Thu Nov 18 15:59:52 GMT 2021


>> Does this:
>> $ ls  /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo
>> lrwxrwxrwx  /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo -> /usr/share/terminfo/
>> serve a purpose, or supply a workaround .. or .. is it a packaging glitch?
>> (Only in Cygwin64, not Cygwin32.)

> $ ls -ld /usr/share/terminfo/terminfo
> ls: cannot access '/usr/share/terminfo/terminfo': No such file or directory
> None of the terminfo (or ncurses) packages contain such link or any post-install scripts that could make one.

Whoops. Must be something daft that I somehow managed to create.
Thank you for this resolution; and sorry for the bother.
Fergus


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