[illumos-Developer] webrev for 294, 1149

Yuri Pankov yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 02:04:15 PDT 2011


On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 06:36:04AM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> https://www.xvoid.org/illumos/webrev/termdefs/
> 
> this webrev updates terminfo database (#294) and fixes a small issue in
> tic (#1149). More details below.
> 
> #294:
> - terminfo and termcap are updated using latest terminfo.src and
>   termcap.src from ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ - both files
>   claim to not have any copyrights or licenses so I've listed them in
>   exception_lists/copyright (they are listed in exception_lists/keywords
>   as well to silence hg pbchk)
> - removed cmd/lp/terminfo completely - some of this definitions are
>   duplicated in main terminfo database, some are really ancient and
>   obsolete - please tell me that I'm wrong doing this if that's not the
>   case
> - removed the scary error detection stuff from cmd/terminfo/Makefile
>   which wasn't working anyway; some of the entries are producing
>   warnings when compiled by tic - I've just silenced them as definitions
>   seem to be added as is to the resulting compiled files (again, I'm not
>   totally sure here, but don't see any ill effects)
> - had to remove 'AT386' from the kmdb's supported terminal types as it's
>   not present in the new source
> - all terminfo entries moved to system/data/terminfo (tabset entries
>   left to live in SUNWcs, as they aren't going to be touched frequently,
>   if at all)
> 
> #1149:
> - removed useless warnings about resulting filename length > 14
> - cstyle'fied the file a bit
> 
> Of course, all this needs additional testing, as the change is quite
> big, feedback is welcome. I've tested only sun-color and xterm types -
> no issues seen yet (nightly compiled cleanly and I'm running the
> resulting image using several curses applications at the moment).

Nobody interested in this?


Yuri



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