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Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2
- From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:29:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2
In the course of doing a complete reinstall from scratch, I discovered a set of
circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2. As distributed,
/usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm is a symlink to ../x/xterm-color which is a
symlink to ../n/nxterm. This can be verified by running
tar -tvjf terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2 | grep nxterm
which produces
lrwxrwxrwx cwilson/None 0 2002-05-08 11:40:45 usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm
-> ../x/xterm-color
lrwxrwxrwx cwilson/None 0 2002-05-08 11:40:20
usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color -> ../n/nxterm
The problem can be resolved simply enough by downloading the ncurses source,
applying the ncurses-5.2-8.patch file, removing /usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm
and /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color, and recompiling the terminfo database.
I'd supply a patch, but there's really nothing to patch -- the tar file just
needs to be updated.
--Rick
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