New: Grub requires package rxvt to configure

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5318

Summary: Grub requires package rxvt to configure
Product: buildroot
Version: 2012.02
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: P5
Component: Other
AssignedTo: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org
ReportedBy: noel.roberts at brisbane.qld.gov.au
CC: buildroot at uclibc.org
Estimated Hours: 0.0

It seems package rxvt is required, however the rxvt package has been removed from Buildroot (according to a one-liner in the CHANGELIST).

Buildroot build completes and doesn't return an error. However, when attempting to run grub, grub returns:

#grub
Probing device to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. Error opening terminal: rxvt.

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ATeamDev <[email protected]> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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              Build|                            |buildroot-2012.05
             Target|                            |i386 / 486

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--- Comment #1 from Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> 2012-06-20 07:00:41 UTC --- It very likely instead related to a dependency on rxvt, it would make no sense
for grub to depend on rxvt. The problem must be a might more complicated than
that, I'd say.

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Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> 2013-05-26 15:37:50 UTC --- The error was not related to Buildroot. When grub is linked with ncurses, it
uses the TERM environment variable to know which terminal type to use. In your
case, the TERM environment variable was set to rxvt, so it was trying to use
one. But you can set TERM to 'vt220' or to 'linux', and grub will not require
rxvt.

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