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To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
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Subject: Re: configure bug in 19.15 final, and problem with BSD/OS binary kit
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MB> == Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

 MB> If ncurses requires terminfo, and terminfo is not available by
 MB> default on a system, then at the very least the binary kits should be
 MB> built --with-ncurses=no, and probably this should even be
 MB> autodetected as the default on such a system.

Agreed.  I actually made *very* sure not to get stealth ncurses this time
through; I configured and compiled after renaming all of the "ncurses"
files in /usr/local/{lib,include} to be "ncurses-dammit".

I'm not particularly bothered about the default as long as configure
actually reports that it's using ncurses so that I'm reminded to turn it
off next time.

(BTW: what does ncurses actually buy us, since we're doing most of our own
redisplay even on TTYs, aren't we?)

