On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2012-01-22 18:34 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> For the record, I have applied the patch in our git repository.thanks (it'll be in the next weekly patch) -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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