Re: a question about termcap support

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2023-12-15T17:12:52-0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 05:53:17AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I'm preparing a heavy revision (attached) of ncurses's termcap man
> > page, and I ran into some difficult material.  It starts with
> > "Normally the ncurses library is compiled with terminfo support."
> > 
> > That implies that under some circumstances, ncurses can be compiled
> > WITHOUT terminfo support, but I don't think that is possible.
> 
> It can be built without a terminfo database (and using just termcap,
> optionally saved to disk as a private terminfo database).
[...]
>     --disable-database
>     --enable-getcap
>     --enable-getcap-cache
>     --without-progs
[...]
> Doing that, most users would tend to agree that it lacks terminfo
> support :-)

Yes, this sets me back on my heels a bit.  It's going to take me some
time to build my mental model of how ncurses works this combination of
config options.

The patch to curs_termcap.3x I submitted today has some further fixes
but keeps the part I commented out part still commented-out.

As this topic percolates through my brain, I'll see what kind of
language I can restore to the page.

Regards,
Branden

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