Subject: Re: [bug#44106] alacritty : add terminfo fix

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:41:10 +0100

Hi,

Fulbert <[email-masked]> skribis:

>   When installed on an user extra-profile, `alacritty` does not add to
> $TERMINFO_DIRS. Solved by using the attached patch. I have stolen this
> fix from the guix `rxvt-unicode` package.

[...]

> Subject: [PATCH] Apply terminfo fix (https://bugs.gnu.org/22138) (stolen from
>  rxvt-unicode package)
>
> ---
>  gnu/packages/terminals.scm | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
> index e596c1b81f..fc30550e3b 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
> @@ -1312,6 +1312,10 @@ made by suckless.")
>         ("ncurses" ,ncurses)
>         ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
>         ("python3" ,python)))
> +    (native-search-paths
> +      (list (search-path-specification
> +              (variable "TERMINFO_DIRS")
> +              (files '("share/terminfo")))))

I committed it (with a commit log that follows our conventions), but
added a FIXME as can be seen above in the file.  We usually avoid
workarounds for this bug but there’s a precedent in this file, so so be it!

Thanks,
Ludo’.