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tests: hardcode terminfo entry for the terminfo color test

For the terminfo color test, make sure that the terminfo entry used is one
of our own choosing, by delivering a special "hgterm" entry (a copy of
ncurses' xterm-color), compiling it, and specifically pointing curses to it
using the TERMINFO and TERM environment variables.  This means we can
ignore the variability in different terminal definitions on different
platforms.

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
python run-tests.py

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WritingTests for
more information on writing tests.