Hello

At 23:31 07/02/2008 -0600, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote:
>I really don't know why you're bothering with rpm stuff.  What's installed 
>on your host OS has little to do with what's inside Astlinux. STAGING_DIR 
>is a directory inside the build_i586 directory in your build 
>environment.  Several things are put there that are not needed in the 
>final build (such as header files etc).

Sorry, I didn't know "make" would only look for libraries in this 
directory, hence my installing RPMs needlesslesly :-/

As for some applications like nano or SQLite sometimes not supporting "dead 
keys" like the cursor keys, CTRL-C, Home/End when working over SSH from 
Windows, here's what I was told:

"The Linux kernel does not support command history for tty input. Many 
shells and other applications that read commands interactively thus 
implement that on their own, reading characters from the kernel instead of 
complete lines, and recognizing control sequences based on termcap or 
terminfo.  Some of those programs delegate the task to a library such a 
readline or editline.

The sqlite3 program apparently can be linked with the readline library. 
Does your sqlite3 binary recognize the UP and DEL keys if you run it on the 
Linux console, rather than via SSH?  If not, perhaps readline support was 
just disabled when sqlite3 was built.  In that case, you could either 
rebuild it, or install rlwrap and run sqlite3 via that."

If sqlite3 recognizes the keys at the console but not via SSH, the problem 
is probably in your TERM environment variable.  Run the infocmp program to 
check whether the appropriate terminal definition has been installed and 
whether it contains the correct strings. I see though that you have already 
tried different values for TERM."

Here's the result of my experiments: http://pastebin.ca/909815

Does someone know more about this "readline" library that apparently 
applications use to convert non-visible keys from remote SSH clients, and 
would know what to do to rebuild SQLite so it supports them? It seems like 
Linux users have no problem when connecting to AstLinux through SSH, but 
I'm working from a Windows client, and apparently, this lack of support for 
dead keys is a common issue.

Thank you.


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