less-381-1: doesn't use terminfo?

["Martin Dorey" <mdorey at bluearc dot com>]

Is it deliberate and desirable to have less(1) not be terminfo-aware?
Splitting the terminal capability database into several files certainly
makes it easy to install the entry for a new terminal type.

Background:

I've been porting a terminal emulator
(http://www.jessies.org/~enh/software/terminator/) to Cygwin.  It has
its own terminfo entry which it installs.  After doing this, less(1)
still produces the dreaded:

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

I think I've tracked this down to less.exe not being linked to the
terminfo-aware ncurses library:

$ cygcheck /usr/bin/less.exe
C:/cygwin/bin/less.exe
  C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll
    C:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL
  C:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
    C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
      C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL
  C:/cygwin/bin\cygpcre-0.dll
$

If I build with libncurses-devel installed, less's configure script
notices, I get a dependency on C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses-8.dll and the
resulting less.exe works fine with "terminator".
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Martin's Outlook, BlueArc Engineering

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