Maybe you need to convince your ncurses to have termcap fallback support? Installing terminfo requires more than just the /etc, I think. -Tom
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:20:28 -0200 > From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] Recovery CD going well, want it better > > Hi people, I'm happy to say my little recovery CD is working like a charm. I > dominated the intricacies of static linking, LILO, ramdisks, mkisofs and > fdisk scripting necessary for the task, and everything Just Works (TM). Now > I'gonna convince Da Boss to allow me to publish the details as Tom > suggested. Shouldn't be a problem, like the kidnapper said in "Ransom". ;-P > > But now I want an itsy-bitsy thing more: instead of the drab input dialogs I > have now, I'd like to use "dialog". Like I did for "eject", I compiled the > thing static. In addition to glibc-devel-static, I had to install > ncurses-devel-static too. OK, it compiled and executed in my development > machine (Conectiva 8). But from tomsrtbt, it complains of no terminal support. > > What kind of terminal support would be necessary for "dialog" (ncurses, > actually) to work? I tried to link to /etc/terminfo from a Debian /etc, to > no avail. The TERM variable is set. Any suggestions would be welcome. > > Cheers, > Juan > > -- > Life is complex: it has real and imaginary components. >
