[jed-users] Add /lib/terminfo to the list of directories to search

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear JED developers,

In the Debian package for JED, we are applying the patch attached to this 
message, which adds /lib/terminfo to the list of directories to search in 
atuoconf/aclocal.m4.

The configure script tries to run "ncurses5-config --terminfo", and if 
this does not succeed, uses a hardcoded list of terminfo directories 
which unfortunately does not include the directories /etc/terminfo and 
/lib/terminfo which are shipped in the Debian package ncurses-base. 
Failing to find a terminfo directory, it then concludes that the system 
must be using termcap and adds "-ltermcap" to the linker line which 
fails.

Please, consider integrating this change in the next release tarball.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière

Description: check for /lib/terminfo in addition to other directories
 The configure script tries to run "ncurses5-config --terminfo", and if
 this does not succeed, uses a hardcoded list of terminfo directories
 which unfortunately does not include the directories /etc/terminfo and
 /lib/terminfo which we ship in ncurses-base.  Failing to find a terminfo
 directory, it then concludes that the system must be using termcap and
 adds "-ltermcap" to the linker line which fails.
 .
 To avoid this problem, add /lib/terminfo to the list of directories to
 search.
Author: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx>
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/804083
Forwarded: no
Last-Updated: 2016-07-25

---

--- jed-0.99.19.orig/autoconf/aclocal.m4
+++ jed-0.99.19/autoconf/aclocal.m4
@@ -481,7 +481,8 @@ JD_Terminfo_Dirs="$MISC_TERMINFO_DIRS \
                   /usr/lib/terminfo \
                   /usr/share/terminfo \
                   /usr/share/lib/terminfo \
-		  /usr/local/lib/terminfo"
+		  /usr/local/lib/terminfo \
+		  /lib/terminfo"
 TERMCAP=-ltermcap
 
 for terminfo_dir in $JD_Terminfo_Dirs