terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement

[cyg Simple]

I have found that terminfo is built such that it requires /usr/share
to be available but /usr/share isn't mounted by default.  This causes
unexpected side effects of the terminal not responding properly
especially noticed when using the Backspace key.  In my opinion either
terminfo needs to change its settings to use /share instead of
/usr/share or Cygwin needs modified to automatically mount /usr/share
like it does /usr/lib.  Or rather just automount /usr such that it
points to / regardless of the underlying directory.  The automount of
/usr/lib also presents an issue when the user mounts /usr to point to
`cygpath -m /` in that any access to /usr gives a directory not found
error when /lib doesn't actually exist.

cyg Simple

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