Re: [PATCH] ncurses: add xterm-256color to terminfo-base

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 7/11/13 7:53 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
> This is to address the buildtools-tarball still having problems with certain
> xterms
>
> [YOCTO #4835]

This is a reasonable workaround, but the real problem seems to be that nativesdk 
python/ncurses return crap (strings with embedded control codes) when they don't 
know what the TERM is.  I think this is the real underlying problem that needs 
to be fixed, unfortunately I have no idea what the cause is.

The alternative is to somehow enforce terminal settings when using the 
buildtools-tarball are one of the known terminals.

--Mark

> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> index 2ed1bba..671daf8 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ shell_do_install() {
>
>           # include some basic terminfo files
>           # stolen ;) from gentoo and modified a bit
> -        for x in ansi console dumb linux rxvt screen sun vt{52,100,102,200,220} xterm-color xterm-xfree86
> +        for x in ansi console dumb linux rxvt screen sun vt{52,100,102,200,220} xterm-color xterm-xfree86 xterm-256color
>           do
>                   local termfile="$(find "${D}${datadir}/terminfo/" -name "${x}" 2>/dev/null)"
>                   local basedir="$(basename $(dirname "${termfile}"))"
>