This allows us to get the terminfo information without linking against curses.
That means we can get by without a bunch of awkward C-API trickery.
There is no global "cur_term" kept by a library for us that we need to invalidate.
Note that it still requires a "unhashed terminfo database", and I don't know how well it handles termcap.
I am not actually sure if there are systems that *can't* have terminfo, everything I looked at
has the ncurses terminfo available to install at least.
NCurses headers contain this conditional "#define cur_term":
print "#elif @cf_cv_enable_reentrant@"
print "NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR(TERMINAL *, cur_term);"
print "#define cur_term NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR(cur_term())"
print "#else"
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed uses this configuration option; For reentrancy, cur_term
is a function. If the NCurses autoconf variable @NCURSES_WRAP_PREFIX@
is not changed from its default, the function is called _nc_cur_term.
I'm not sure if we have a need to support non-default @NCURSES_WRAP_PREFIX@
but if we do there are various ways;
- search for the symbol with the cur_term suffix
- figure out the prefix based on the local curses installation,
for example by looking at the header files.
Fixes#10243
