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From: Peter <sw98234@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] mc-4.6.1 not showing graphical characters in terminal
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:08:09
Message-Id: edv6kf$4ar$1@sea.gmane.org
1 After
2 1) upgrade to gcc 4.1.1
3 2) upgrade to profile 2006.1
4 3) revdep-rebuild recompile for libstdc++ and for new profile uses (which
5 included mc)
6
7 Now, issuing mc at a terminal prompt (not inside X) shows no border
8 characters. Does this have something to do with unicode support? The only
9 way I can get any useful terminal output is to use the -a output for stick
10 characters. Inside an xterm or similar, mc shows graphical characters
11 fine. I re-emerged mc with -unicode, but the results are the same.
12
13 Clues?
14 -----------------------
15 peter@mars ~ $ mc -V
16 GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1
17 Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish, smbfs, undelfs
18 With builtin Editor
19 Using system-installed S-Lang library with terminfo database
20 With subshell support as default
21 With support for background operations
22 With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
23 With support for X11 events
24 With internationalization support
25 With multiple codepages support
26
27 peter@mars ~ $ emerge --info
28 Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-beyond4pre1-r1 i686)
29 =================================================================
30 System uname: 2.6.17-beyond4pre1-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
31 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
32 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
33 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1
34 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
35 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present]
36 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present]
37 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17
38 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7
39 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
40 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3
41 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
42 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22
43 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17
44 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
45 AUTOCLEAN="yes"
46 CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
47 CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
48 CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
49 CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
50 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
51 CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
52 DISTDIR="/mnt/src/distfiles"
53 FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
54 GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://206.75.217.180/"
55 MAKEOPTS="-j2"
56 PKGDIR="/mnt/src/portage/packages"
57 PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
58 PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/src/var/tmp"
59 PORTDIR="/mnt/src/portage"
60 PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/src/local/portage /mnt/src/local/overlays/bmg-main"
61 SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
62 USE="x86 X alsa arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg lcms ldap libg++ mad mikmod mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slang spell spl ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis win32codecs xine xml xmms xorg xscreensaver xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev"
63 Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
64
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Re: [gentoo-user] mc-4.6.1 not showing graphical characters in terminal Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>