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Subject: Re: 5.9-20140322: tic fails on mlterm entry
From: Thomas Dickey <dickey () his ! com>
Date: 2014-03-23 20:52:06
Message-ID: 20140323205206.GA3324 () aerie ! jexium-island ! net
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:34:11AM +0100, balducci@units.it wrote:
> Hello,
>
> apologies if I am missing something here.
>
> Just tried to build 5.9-20140322 and I get:
>
> ---8<--------
> [...]
> "terminfo.tmp", line 4758, terminal 'mlterm': resolution of use=mlterm failed
> ? tic could not build /opt/stow.d/versions/ncurses-5.9-20140322/usr/share/terminfo
> Makefile:90: recipe for target 'install.data' failed
> make[2]: *** [install.data] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory \
> '/home/balducci/tmp/install-us-d/ncurses-5.9-20140315.d/ncurses-5.9-20140322/misc'
>
> ---8<--------
>
>
> This is what I seem to understand: in terminfo.tmp, which is derived
> from terminfo.src, I find:
>
> mlterm|multi lingual terminal emulator,
> use=mlterm,
It should be
use=mlterm3,
...and I'm puzzled, since I built/installed that on 3 platforms last night
(Debian 6, Debian/testing and Fedora20) without seeing an error (and my
copy has "infocmp mlterm" working as intended).
> I know 0 about the format of terminfo.src: "use=mlterm" should mean
> "include code from entry mlterm": but this IS entry mlterm, so smells of
> infinite recursion (or so), which seems to explain the error message:
> "resolution of use=mlterm failed"
yes...
(offhand, the only reason I could see for overlooking the problem here is
that the install goes onto an existing filesystem, so it's only updating).
I'll bump the patch-level...
--
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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