Re: [PATCH] aclocal.m4: Enable configure to detect the presence of terminfo database on OpenBSD

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov gmx net>]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> > I admit that I didn't knew how S-Lang interfaces with the terminfo database
> > before I browsed through the code today. However, IMHO, what is
> > incompatible here is the S-Lang library itself - there are a couple of
> > routines which deal with the terminfo database and if S-Lang used them
> > instead of emulating them everything would be fine.
> 
> Are those functions in the curses library?  You can ask in the S-Lang
> mailing list, but I think it will be easier to reimplement those functions
> rather than link to -lcurses.  S-Lang used to depend on -lcurses in the
> past on some UNIX systems, but this dependency was later eliminated.

Yep! I figured that out by myself. I've started a patch but it seems like 
it'll be taking some time before I can complete it. I'll notify you if I 
eventually finish it up.