On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 05:00:41PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-12-28 10:45 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> > Package: libtinfo5
> > Version: 5.9-4
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Configuring ncurses --with-default-terminfo-dir=/usr/share/terminfo, as
> > we have been doing since 5.7+20100313-1, has the unfortunate side effect
> > that tic(1) writes to /usr/share/terminfo instead of /etc/terminfo by
> > default when run as root (overridable with the -o option).
> >
> > I'm reluctant to revert the change, since that would mean reintroducing
> > bug #509919.
>
> Looking closer, it seems to me I have now found the root cause of
> #509919. In misc/gen-edit.sh, the tabset directory is computed from the
> default terminfo directory, but misc/Makefile.in actually installs the
> tabset files into ${datadir}/tabset which is not necessarily the same
> place.
>
> The following patch removes this discrepancy and seems to DTRT:... > Thomas, what do you think of that? I agree (seems to work). Checking the history, I see that chunk dates from 2004, and was originally from run_tic.sh in 1996. (It seems there's never been a good reason to make the tabset directory's location separately configurable). -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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