On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 09:51:30AM -0500, Dan Mack wrote:
>
> I recently logged into one of my FreeBSD systems from an alacritty terminal.
> FreeBSD didn't have a termcap entry for alacritty so I generated one with
> tic and all was well. However, I noticed the following issues with the
> TERM* related tools (I guess this is all from contrib/ncurses in /usr/src).
>
> Specifically, the issue is for example - the tic(1M) man page says in the
> FILES section:
>
> /usr/share/misc/terminfo/?/*
> Compiled terminal description database.
The "misc" appears to come from lib/ncurses/config.mk,
and (since the library holds the pathname) would be
used in usr.bin/ncurses --
However, I don't see any of those programs installed in /usr/bin on
an up-to-date FreeBSD machine. If you have tic, I'd expect it to be
in the add-on package (in /usr/local/bin).
> However, when you run tic(1M), the compiled terminal files are actually
> placed in /usr/share/terminfo/?/* . I thought I could create a simple one
> line fix by re-defining the definition for *d in the manpage, however, it
> looks like there there might be a need to create two separate directory
> variables instead.
The manpage shows only the default location for writing files.
tic only has one of those (corresponding to $TERMINFO).
Further in the manpage, it summarizes the places tic looks to read files
(corresponding to $TERMINFO_DIRS).
> On FreeBSD-Current HEAD (2d3614fb132b1cb8efd1e0accdd0c98ce6893efa) I am
> seeing two directories in use:
>
> /usr/share/terminfo/?- compiled entries created by tic(1M)
> and
> /usr/share/misc - contains the files termcap and termcap.db
>
> Looks like this directory reference is set to *d here in the tic manpage:
>
> 18259542b2f8f contrib/ncurses/man/tic.1m 2000-10-11 07:31:01 + 37) .ds
> d @TERMINFO@
>
> Since this is also set in alot of other places, we probably need someone to
> make some sort of decision :-)
>
> Dan
>
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