[llvm] r187874 - Add support for linking against a curses library when available and

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Wed Aug 7 14:15:50 PDT 2013


In article <CAGCO0KiS=7872Jwg8CRLMz3e=qZe=YBez1ckkfV5bxoM2dCTWg at mail.gmail.com>,
    Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com> writes:

> I see two possible ways to do this, both of which I considered and rejected.
> [...]
> 2) Manually build up a list of TERM strings that support colors.

Ultimately this doesn't work because part of terminfo/termcap allows
users to define their own TERM strings based on the "standard"
database for things like "my preference is 132 columns with green
foreground and yellow background" or whatever.
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