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Re: owl clobbers TERMINFO env var
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Sat Dec 6 19:19:08 2003
Message-Id: <200312070019.TAA20292@mission-control.mit.edu>
To: Yonah Schmeidler <yonah@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-owl@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:03:31 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:19:05 -0500
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
> Owl shouldn't be setting TERMINFO internally. I'd guess that you're
> trying to work around a bad default path in your ncurses build, given
> this commit message
>
> set TERMINFO so we won't lose with ncurses
>
> but I'm unconvinced that setting TERMINFO internally is the right
> solution. In particular, I set TERMINFO to /mit/gnu/share/terminfo
> so that I can get a good entry for screen on Solaris. I have a
> workaround of creating a symlink to there from ~/.terminfo, but
> that's really suboptimal.
I made a change for 2.0.14 (not yet released) so that Owl will only
set TERMINFO if it's not already set in the environment. How's that?
kretch
