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Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2
- From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>
- To: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>, Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:02:42 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2
--- Rick Rankin <rick_rankin@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> In short, I'm not at all sure how it worked before. I need to look at the
> source for less to understand how it determines that a terminal is "not fully
> functional" and proceed from there.
>
Well, it seems that the problem is specific to the way Cygwin's distribution of
less was compiled. The Cygwin binary was compiled without ncurses:
$ cygcheck less.exe
Found: .\less.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\less.exe
.\less.exe
.\cygwin1.dll
C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
C:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
.\cygpcre.dll
When I compiled the source *with* ncurses, less worked perfectly with
TERM=nxterm. Is there a reason that the Cygwin binary was compiled without
ncurses (e.g., minimize package dependencies)?
--Rick
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