padding in vt100 causes 'make check' to hang on FreeBSD

["Jun T." <takimoto-j@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On FreeBSD, 'make check' hangs at X02zlevi.ztst (and other tests which use
comptest). The hang is at line 96 of comptest (in comptesteval()):

95:   zpty -w zsh ". $tmp"
96:   zpty -r -m zsh log_eval "*<PROMPT>*" || {

The actual problem is in the contents of the file $tmp (i.e., "$@"
of comptesteval()), in particular line 37:

37: TERM=vt100

Various capabilities of vt100 contain the ancient "padding", and FreeBSD's
slave side tputs() actually sends 'null bytes' as paddings before sending
the <PROMPT>. But the zsh on the master side just considers the 'null byte'
as the end of C-string, and the line 96 never returns.

If I change the line 37 to

37: TERM=xterm

then 'make check' doesn't hang and ends without failure (xterm doesn't
contain any padding, of course).

Is it OK to replace vt100 with xterm?
I guess xterm is 'almost' as portable as vt100, but not 100% sure.