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On 09/05/2010 18:31, René Berber wrote:
> Digika wrote:
> 
>> Can  someone explain me why "top" from ProcPs package ... do not want to
>> work?  I  gave  him all depends (cygncurses-8.dll and cygwin1.dll) but
>> everything I'm getting from it is an error:
>>
>> C:\Programs\gnutools\procps\usr\bin>top
>> 'cygwin': unknown terminal type.
> 
> Do you have terminfo installed?
> 
> Ncurses has terminfo as dependency, indirect through libncurses10.
> Perhaps your installation is incomplete.

  It looks like Digika is trying to make top run standalone by unpacking the
archive manually and adding a copy of the cygwin1 and cygncurses-8 DLLs.  It's
unsurprising that it won't work without the other required parts of the cygwin
installation around it.  A simple "strings /usr/bin/cygncurses-8.dll | grep
terminfo" shows that it expects to be able to locate the /usr/share/terminfo
subdirectory.

> Check the program itself: 'cygcheck `which top`'.

  That doesn't actually show this kind of dependency; it shows the DLLs that
the executable requires, but it can't know anything about file paths it might
want to open at runtime.

>> Why  is  that so? is there any way to make standalone version of "top"
>> which is independent from cygwin terminal? I want to use it via telnet
>> on a remote win32 machine.
> 
> There are easier ways, depending on the terminal you are using you could
> just define TERM, i.e. export TERM=rxvt or vt100 or something else.

  Don't see how that would work either.  Maybe setting TERM to nothing at all
would work.  Otherwise, you could try copying /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin
into C:\Programs\gnutools\procps\usr\share\terminfo\c\ and it might work, but
I don't know if other dependencies might crop up.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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