[304] in bug-owl
Re: owl clobbers TERMINFO env var
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yonah Schmeidler)
Tue Dec 9 20:56:14 2003
Message-Id: <200312100156.UAA04281@multics.mit.edu>
To: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-owl@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:19:05 EST."
<200312070019.TAA20292@mission-control.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 20:56:06 -0500
From: Yonah Schmeidler <yonah@MIT.EDU>
> 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?
Sounds reasonable, although I'm still unconvinced that setting it at
all is the right thing to do. *Maybe* it's okay if you're checking
at configure time that the library default is wrong or that the
hardcoded one is correct.
-yonah
