On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 02:46:49PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Hi, > > the "Reconstructed via infocmp from file" comment in the infocmp output > has changed recently, this is what it looks like in ncurses 6.6: > > ,---- > | $ infocmp dumb | head -n1 > | # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/./d/dumb > `---- > > Note the extra "/." in the middle of the filename, compared to what it > printed before, e.g. in Debian unstable: > > ,---- > | $ infocmp -V > | ncurses 6.5.20251123 > | $ infocmp dumb | head -n1 > | # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/d/dumb > `---- > > This change is harmless, but does not look intentional. Bisection > revealed that it was introduced in the 20251227 patchlevel, but I have > not figured out what exactly caused it.
It's actually intentional (though usually unnecessary -- and can conceive
of it causing heartburn for some scripters).
I'll add an ifdef in errata later today to make it go away -- for most uses.
I thought of doing that, but got distracted by other fixes.
The reason for that was the changes I made here:
+ modify MinGW32 configuration to account for its use of Windows-style
pathnames in filesystem checks.
> Cheers,
> Sven
>
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