Re: Help with libcurses and lynx under NetBSD-9 and -current?

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2101270901410.7671%faeroes.freeshell.org@localhost>,
RVP  <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:
>This might be due to the fact that window(1) relies on setting a
>custom TERMCAP environment variable to inform programs running
>under it of the term. capabilities it supports, and the curses
>library no longer makes use of that.
>
>With ncurses, building it with the `--enable-termcap' option
>makes it use the TERMCAP variable if it set in the environment.
>
>The ncurses(w) in pkgsrc is not built with that option, so, I
>compiled the latest ncurses from source with that option added
>and lynx -show_cursor worked just fine under window(1).
>
>-RVP

I think we can make our libterminfo do the same by shuffling a few ifdefs
around :-)

christos

Index: term.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/lib/libterminfo/term.c,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -u -r1.34 term.c
--- term.c	5 Apr 2020 14:53:39 -0000	1.34
+++ term.c	27 Jan 2021 17:51:27 -0000
@@ -368,7 +368,6 @@
 		return _ti_dbgetterm(term, e, name, flags);
 
 	c = NULL;
-#ifdef TERMINFO_COMPILE
 	if (e == NULL && (c = getenv("TERMCAP")) != NULL) {
 		if (*c != '\0' && *c != '/') {
 			c = strdup(c);
@@ -379,6 +378,10 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+#ifndef TERMINFO_COMPILE
+	if (e != NULL && *e == '/')
+		return _ti_dbgetterm(term, e, name, flags);
+#else
 	if (e != NULL) {
 		TIC *tic;