On 11/02/2020 16.22, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hello, looks like with TERM=unknown the testsuite fails: > > *** Failed tests *** > > /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/apps/common/rules/functions_help.rules:248: testcase 1 > expected: regular return > got: EXCEPTION: Can't find a valid termcap file at > /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/perllib/Polymake/Core/InteractiveCommands.pm line 32.
Thanks for the report, we will make this non-fatal in the next polymake revision 4.0r1, probably next week. > I think exporting a valid TERM in rules file is something sane to do. This seems very reasonable, yes. I am somewhat surprised that this did not appear in the debian package builds, but it did for the reproducibility tests and also on ubuntu.