From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: Trouble building ncurses 1.9.9g.
9 Dec 1997 14:02:05 -0800
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Hi Bruce,

>I have been trying to build ncurses_1.9.9g under cygwin32 b18.5 & NT4.0.
>It appears to build O.K. but when I try and run any of the test programs
>I get: Error opening terminal: linux.

This happens, because the termlib database hasn't been built correctly,
as your messages below indicate.

[...]
>  sh ./run_tic.sh /usr/local/bin . /usr/local/share/terminfo
>  ** Building terminfo database, please wait...
>  ** adjusting tabset paths
>  "/tmp/7863", line 268, terminal 'unknown': resolution of use=dumb failed
[...]
>
>Please forgive me if these errors should blatantly tell me what is amiss.
>I'm not a unix person or Winnt person.  I have searched the mailing list
>archives and haven't gotten any clues from there.  Any comments?

Yes, delete the source tree for curses, remount (at least) the partition
you are compiling on as binary, unpack the source package for curses again
and recompile it.

>
>regards :-)
>Bruce S. Skinner

Bye.
Michael.
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