Bug 177722

Summary:	Change request: Add terminfo database to linux_base-*
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Jason W. Bacon <jwb>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-emulation (Nobody) <emulation>
Status:	Closed DUPLICATE
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	cs, emaste
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Jason W. Bacon freebsd_committer

2013-04-08 21:40:02 UTC

Linux Matlab runs well on FreeBSD, but when running with the -nodesktop command-line flag, it crashes after issuing the error message "setupterm() failed!".

The error is caused by Matlab's inability to locate a terminfo database, which by default should reside in /usr/share/terminfo.

I have developed a matlab-installer script and port which could install a terminfo database, but there are probably other Linux applications suffering the same fate, so it would probably be better to have it in linux_base.

Fix: 

Install a terminfo database at /compat/linux/usr/share/terminfo.
How-To-Repeat: 1) Install Matlab.

(Installer scripts available at http://personalpages.tds.net/~jwbacon/Ports/distfiles/)

2) matlab -nodesktop

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2013-04-09 19:45:50 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->freebsd-emulation


Over to maintainer(s).

Comment 2 Carlo Strub freebsd_committer

2014-09-14 10:18:25 UTC

Is this PR still relevant?

Comment 3 Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2014-11-16 21:45:16 UTC

No need to unnecessarily conflict with devel/linux-*-ncurses-base.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 177723 ***