screen on 64-bit mangles mintty/buffer

Wed May 14 21:15:00 GMT 2014

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> The 32-bit defines TERMINFO:
>> config.h:
>> /*
> * Define TERMINFO if your machine emulates the termcap routines
> * with the terminfo database.
> * Thus the .screenrc file is parsed for
> * the command 'terminfo' and not 'termcap'.
> */
> #define TERMINFO 1
>> configure.log:
>> configure:5025: $? = 0
> configure:5025: ./conftest.exe
> configure:5025: $? = 1
> configure: program exited with status 1
>> configure:
>> if ac_fn_c_try_run "$LINENO"; then :
> echo "- you use the termcap database" 1>&6
>> else
> echo "- you use the terminfo database" 1>&6
> $as_echo "#define TERMINFO 1" >>confdefs.h
>> fi
>>> the 64-bit does not:
>> /* #undef TERMINFO */
>> configure:5025: $? = 0
> configure:5025: ./conftest.exe
> configure:5025: $? = 0
>> I can't understand why the ./conftest.exe differ. Trying to emulate by
> hand, I cannot reproduce it. But it is now very late here, and I can't
> debug anymore.
>> I'm hoping that I've provided enough of a lead for someone of authority
> to decide where things are right, and where things are wrong.

Yes, I think so!
Thanks a lot, Shaddy. That takes us a long way to a solution. I'll look
at it from there as soon as I can.
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