On 1/27/18, Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote: > I've had more experience in the Debian world, and I recognized that > tputs probably had to do with terminfo but since Slackware uses termcap, > I mentally stopped there.
Slackware uses both actually. Not really an optimal situation, but we've got both /usr/share/terminfo and /etc/termcap. Also in /usr/include there's both term.h and termcap.h. Main difference I see is that in Slackware 14.2 and older, the terminfo functions are included in libncurses... and in Debian (and Slack-current) they're split out into libtinfo, which is "the new way". I've never been sure why it's "better". I've had to hack up some Makefiles to get rid of references to -ltinfo to get them to work on 14.2. > That will be far more elegant than the solution I arrived at which was > to patch configure.ac and Makefile.am, make an m4 directory and copy the > ax_lib_readline.m4 into the m4 directory, and rerun autoreconf -f -i > which did actually work! Passing LIBS this way is much better. Ouch, yeah, that's more autoconf twiddling than I could stand. Congrats on your persistence. _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
