terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement
Andrew Schulman
schulman.andrew@epa.gov
Thu Oct 30 19:20:00 GMT 2014
> 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.
/usr/share isn't mounted separately, at least in any Cygwin installation
I've ever had. It's just a directory within /usr, which is within the
mount /.
Moreover /usr/share should always exist, since many base packages store
files in it. Does it not exist in your installation? Do you have e.g.
/usr/share/doc?
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