At date and time Sat, 31 May 2014 15:53:46 +0100, Gerard Lally wrote: > At date and time Sat, 31 May 2014 11:40:14 +0930, Brett Lymn wrote: > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:42:04PM +0100, atomicules wrote: > > > On 30-May-2014 14:31:11, Gerard Lally wrote: > > > >I copied this terminfo source file to my home directory in NetBSD and > > > >ran tic on it: > > > > > > > >tic -s rxvt-unicode-256color.terminfo. > > > > > > > >This created a .terminfo directory in HOME, and a subdirectory r with a > > > >single file in r called rxvt-unicode-256color. No cdb extension in other > > > >words. > > > > > > I'm stumped and confused. I don't understand how NetBSD could do that > > > (not create a database file; a file with the .cdb extension). > > > According to the man page for tic: > > > > > > >DESCRIPTION > > > > The tic utility compiles terminfo(5) source into a database for use > > > > by > > > > other programs. The created database path name is the same as the > > > > source > > > > but with .cdb appended. > > > > > > The .terminfo directory and subdirecotry you describe is what I see on > > > Arch > > > Linux, but not NetBSD. > > > > Make sure you run the right tic - if you have ncurses installed due to > > some package dependency you may be accidentally running the ncurses tic > > which will produce the wrong results, try using /usr/bin/tic and see > > what happens. This catches me out from time to time. > > Well I finally found a way around it, although it feels like a kludge, > but it's working now. There is only one tic by the way, in /usr/bin/tic. > > I'll give a summary in case someone else stumbles over this issue. > > Three machines: > > remote = remote NetBSD without X11 (and therefore without rxvt-unicode) > local = local X11 client with rxvt-unicode terminal installed > (Slackware) > vm = temporary local NetBSD virtual machine with X11 and rxvt-unicode > installed > > I installed NetBSD 6.1.4 with X11 on $vm, and installed rxvt-unicode on > that machine. Running "make install" created three files in the > doc/etc/ subdirectory of the working source directory. These three files > were: > > rxvt-unicode.terminfo > rxvt-unicode.termcap > rxvt-unicode.terminfo.cdb. > > I copied these files to $HOME on $remote, and logged in to $remote from > $local. Once again I ran tic on $remote: > > $ tic -s rxvt-unicode.terminfo > > But once again this failed to create a file with extension .cdb, > although it did report successfully adding 2 entries to the database, > creating ~/.terminfo and ~/.terminfo/r/, together with the two files > rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-256color in ~/.terminfo/r/. > > Once again "top" reported an error: "no termcap entry for > rxvt-unicode-256color." > > Now this is where I returned to the tic(1) and terminfo(5) man pages on > $remote, but to my mind they are not clear here. terminfo(5) specifies > the file $HOME/.terminfo.cdb as the database which contains terminal > descriptions for personal use, but tic(1) doesn't seem to care, just > saying that "the created database path name is the same as the source > but with .cdb appended." I take that to mean "tic -s rxvt-unicode.terminfo" > should produce a file named rxvt-unicode.terminfo.cdb in $HOME. Needless > to say it doesn't. > > At this point I took terminfo(5) literally and created $HOME/.terminfo.cdb > by renaming the rxvt-unicode.terminfo.cdb file I had copied from $vm. > Lo and behold that solved the problem straight away! "top" was happy, > although "tput" complained about an unknown terminal but I solved this > by logging in as root and running "tic -s /home/gerard/rxvt-unicode.terminfo", > which created these two files: > > /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode.terminfo > /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode.terminfo-256color > Correction: it created two files as follows:
> /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode > /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode-256color -- Gerard Lally
