[uClibc]menuconfig is flaky on gnome-terminal

Miles Bader miles at lsi.nec.co.jp
Fri Dec 13 04:38:33 UTC 2002


The menuconfig stuff seems to have been changed to not fork a process
to redisplay the menu; this is good because it's much faster/slicker,
but it causes lots of display problems if you're using a gnome-terminal
to display the menu (it works much better on a real xterm).

The basic prob seems to be that old text doesn't get erased, when a new
menu is drawn.  E.g., if you do `make menuconfig', and then enter the
first submenu (`Target Architecture Features and Options  --->'), the
proper display (in an xterm) is:

  x lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x   
  x x[*] Enable floating point number support                             x x   
  x x[ ]   Enable full C99 math library support                           x x   
  x x(-Wall) Compiler Warnings                                            x x   
  x x(/proj/soft2/uclinux/uclinux/build/ma1) Linux kernel header location x x   
  x x                                                                     x x   
  x x                                                                     x x   
  x x                                                                     x x   


This would seem to be a problem with gnome-terminal, since it
sets TERM to `xterm', and then fails to actually work like xterm, but
perhaps you could propagate this report to whoever did the menuconfig
change, so they know about the problem.

-Miles
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