On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:28:59 +0300, Anonymous wrote:
Yuri Pankov<yuri.pan...@gmail.com>  writes:

Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn<at>  freebsd.org>  writes:


As part of work on a new installer, I would like to update the base
system dialog and libdialog to the newer one provided by Thomas Dickey
(http://invisible-island.net/dialog/, ports as devel/cdialog). This is a
much nicer, fuller featured version of dialog that simplifies the
creation of new dialog-using tools (a longstanding impediment to a new
versions of sade, sysinstall, etc.), and is under a marginally better
license (LGPL2 instead of GPL2).
<snip>

`make config` in ports is showing garbage when used inside the screen (built

By `garbage' do you mean pseudographic symbols? They look as lines of
`?' question marks here.  Try invoking OPTIONS like below

   $ make config DIALOG='dialog --ascii-lines'

Apart from OPTIONS there is also ports/154121 (--hline).

Thanks for the hints. Garbage means screen is totally unreadable, not minor issues with pseudographic characters (sorry, not sure how to make a screenshot of that). --ascii-lines helps here.

with default options) in syscons, en_US.UTF-8. I'll provide additional
testing/details if this information is not enough to reproduce.

/head uses xterm emulation by default. This may or may not affect
pseudographics.


Yuri
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