ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun

From	Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.programmer.porting
Subject	ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun
Date	2012-06-28 00:49 -0400
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Hi, all...

Finally got my build system working again, but bumped into these issues
tonight when cobbling together less 4.4.3:

1. Running less.exe yields a common message (common at least in a Google
search):

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

Setting TERM=os2 doesn't resolve this, even though os2 is present under
/usr/share/terminfo. However, it does seem to like xterm and rxvt. Thus,
I'm not really sure where it's grabbing the terminal defs.

Using xterm or rxvt results in the window session shrinking to about
20x25 from 80x25, so that's not even a real workaround. Of course, I can
just ignore the message, but I'm thinking that there should be some way
to set the TERM in the Makefile (unless I'm being too presumptuous in
thinking that there really isn't any harm in locking OS/2 users into a
single terminal environment - I guess some people would launch less from
an xterm under OS/2).

2. (Annoying) For some reason, likely related to my lack of experience
building on anything besides Linux, where one gets spoiled by the
config/make/install routine except for building very old or very new
stuff on (conversely) very old or very new OSes or with very old or very
new tools, I am have a real time of trying to *not* link tinfo5.dll
dynamically. I really want to build less as a package usable with only
libc065 (building with gcc 4.4.6) as a dependency.

Any thoughts/pointers/tips (including "don't quit your day job") are
welcome!

Thanks!!

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ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com> - 2012-06-28 00:49 -0400
  Re: ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun dickey@his.com - 2012-06-28 02:33 -0700
    Re: ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com> - 2012-06-28 08:27 -0400
      Re: ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2012-06-28 08:08 -0700
        Re: ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com> - 2012-06-30 20:53 -0400
  Re: ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2012-06-28 11:53 -0500
    Re: ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun Lewis Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2-de-sp-am-2rosenthals.com> - 2012-06-30 20:59 -0400
      Re: ncurses 5.7 and terminal fun Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2012-06-30 22:15 -0700

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