From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:35:43 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] ncurses: disable terminfo database install for host-ncurses In-Reply-To: <20180809145722.388-1-peter@korsgaard.com> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Thu, 9 Aug 2018 16:57:22 +0200") References: <20180809145722.388-1-peter@korsgaard.com> Message-ID: <87a7pcmd2o.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard writes: > Since commit b35ad5d0b45e (ncurses: make host-ncurses use host terminfo), we > are now pointing host-ncurses to the host terminfo (typically) located in > /usr/share/terminfo. > With this change we are reusing the existing host terminfo database, so > there is no point in trying to install our own on top. The user running > buildroot typically will have no write access to /usr/share/terminfo, but > tic in that case falls back to writing the database to $HOME/.terminfo. > Neither of which are desirable. > In case $HOME/.terminfo also isn't writable, tic fails, breaking the install > step for host-ncurses: > ** Building terminfo database, please wait... > Running sh ./shlib tic to install /usr/share/terminfo ... > You may see messages regarding extended capabilities, e.g., AX. > These are extended terminal capabilities which are compiled > using > tic -x > If you have ncurses 4.2 applications, you should read the INSTALL > document, and install the terminfo without the -x option. > "terminfo.tmp", line 21272, terminal 'v3220': /home/peko/.terminfo: permission denied (errno 30) > To fix all of this, simply disable the terminfo database install. > Suggested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard Committed to 2018.02.x and 2018.05.x, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard