Re: tput broken at ncurses-5.6-20070714.patch

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Christian Ebert wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First post here. And thanks for keeping the curse alive!
>
> Recently I finally compiled ncurses to get a more recent version
> on MacOS 10.4.10.
>
> So far everything looks fine, the only thing that made me sweat
> was that I first tried the most recent patch script, and with
> ncurses-5.6-20070714-patch.sh tput lines or tput cols only
> returned the entries from terminfo, not the actual terminal size.

That could be

20070716
        + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
          is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
          (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
          cf: 20070310).

(the breakage was because I've been moving internal data around, to
work on a more-thread-safe configuration...)

> After repatching with ncurses-5.6-20070303-patch.sh the behaviour
> reverted to normal. So perhaps somewhere in between tput was
> broken.

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