I ran across the following problem when trying to run "sugar-jhbuild
build" in an Emacs shell window, whose terminal type was set to "dumb"
by default:
When it tried to build Cairo and ran "./autogen.sh --prefix ...", that
shell script returned immediately with an error code without producing
any output.
The problem was on the line that went:
boldface="`tput bold 2>/dev/null`"
That was failing because the terminal type was set to "dumb".
Once I set the terminal type to "vt100" it worked, though.
Apparently "tset" fails if the terminal type does not support bold
highlighting, which causes the autogen script to fail.
It looks like a lot of the different packages use "tput" in their
autogen.sh scripts:
caio, dbus-glib, poppler, pyabiword, pycairo, pygobject, pygtk
Maybe it would be a good idea to leave fragile useless bells and
whistles like escape codes for terminal highlighting out of the
configuration and build process.
-Don
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