Re: pkg/53836 (termcap not working on ppc64 linux)

[Thomas Batten <stenstorpmc%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53836; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Batten <stenstorpmc%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/53836 (termcap not working on ppc64 linux)
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 22:53:35 +1030

 On Sat, 2019-01-05 at 20:59 +0000, leot%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 
 Seems as if this also happens on mips32 
 https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/pkgsrc-on-ci20-creator-v2-board/
 
 I have found that setting TERMCAP_TYPE="curses" in the bmake command or
 in /usr/pkgsrc/mk/defaults/mk.conf is a functional workaround for this
 allowing affected packages to be built.