What is correct value for TERM to ^L=clear-screen on Linux? about oksh HOT 5 CLOSED

Built from master:

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/oksh
	/lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0xffff96557000)
	libncursesw.so.6 => /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 (0xffff9647d000)
	libc.musl-aarch64.so.1 => /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0xffff96557000)

Aaaaaaand.... ^L successfully clears the screen. So this is an Alpine packaging bug.

from oksh.

From the README.md:
Though not required, the ncurses library will be used for screen clearing routines if the library is found during the configure stage. This can be turned off by the user by passing the --disable-curses flag to configure.

from oksh.

Hmm. No special TERM value should be required. If oksh is linked with ncurses, then ncurses does the work of clearing the screen. If oksh is not linked with ncurses, then ^L just prints a newline. Can you check to make sure your version of oksh is linked with ncurses?

Otherwise I'll need to find time to spin up an Alpine VM and see what's going on.

from oksh.

Ah nope!

$ ldd /bin/oksh
	/lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0xffff913ee000)
	libc.musl-aarch64.so.1 => /lib/ld-musl-aarch64.so.1 (0xffff913ee000)

Alpine has a bit of a thing about removing dependencies...

from oksh.

why does oksh require ncurses for? a replacement for readline?

from oksh.