Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Otherwise LGTM. It’s great that you fixed this! People had reported >> the issue on IRC, so that’ll make them happy! :-) > > I think this is only a partial fix. to launch emacsclient I still need > to do this: > > TERMINFO="$HOME/.guix-profile/share/terminfo" emacsclient --tty foo > > in terminfo(5), we can read this:
[...] > I suppose that "system terminfo directory" is set to > /gnu/store/...-ncurses-6.0 and IIUC correctly this is the only place > automatically searched. What about adding TERMINFO_DIRS in > "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile"? I think TERMINFO_DIRS is more > appropriate than TERMINFO because it let the possibility for non-GuixSD > users to have multiple directories in it. Indeed, sounds good. > From eedb9ca34c5bbc973765c8bd8a17b0a42c98e427 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> > Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 21:58:03 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: rxvt-unicode: Add the terminal capability data. > > This sets the destination when installing the necessary terminal > capability data, which are not provided by ncurses. See > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2009-10/msg00031.html > > * gnu/packages/xdisorg.scm (rxvt-unicode)[native-inputs]: Add ncurses. > [arguments]: Set the destination of the terminfo files. > [native-search-path]: New field. Make them automatically available to > the user. [...] > + (native-search-paths > + (list (search-path-specification > + (variable "TERMINFO_DIRS") > + (files '("share/terminfo"))))) This should be in the ncurses package itself, since it is “owned” by ncurses, not rxvt. However, there’s the limitation that, currently, --search-paths advertises the variables of things that are explicitly in the profile. Ncurses is usually not in the profile; it is a dependency of something that is in the profile. Thus, people wouldn’t see anything about TERMINFO_DIRS in practice (we have the same problem with OpenSSL, GStreamer, and other librairies that have associated variables.) Long story short, I would avoid adding this ‘native-search-paths’ here, but I’m OK with it since that would make the thing usable, provided there’s a big FIXME in there. WDYT? Ludo’.
