[GRASS5] Re: Terminal Errors

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 07:16:13PM -0700, Jeshua Lacock wrote:
> 
> On Friday, May 18, 2001, at 02:12 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> >> It seems to me that there is a tricky yet simple reason behind this
> >> whole terminal problem.
> >
> > Yep; MacOS X has a broken curses installation. Are there any mailing
> > lists, web sites etc specifically for MacOS X issues? If there are,
> > they would probably be of more help than this list. This problem is
> > unlikely to be specific to GRASS; any program which tries to use
> > curses should suffer from the same problems.
> >
> >> Any other suggestions?  Would you like to see my "env"?  My (default)
> >> TERMCAP environment variable is about two hundred weird characters.
> >
> > I'm not sure that would help. It's legal for $TERMCAP to be an actual
> > termcap entry rather than the path to the termcap file. However, in
> > this case, curses should be ignoring $TERM.
> 
> All right!!!
> 
> Thanks Glynn, and everyone, we finally got this one nailed.  I installed 
> ncurses 5.2 and harmony has been restored to the Mac OS X GIS universe.
> 
> You no longer have to type location to start grass and modules that were 
> broken now work.
Ahh great!
 
> Now to compile pre1....
> 
> Markus:  Shall I upload a tarball with instructions?
Yes, please. But while compiling - let's get this "-s" to work to
reduce the binary size. I can't believe that MacOSX is failing here.

Markus