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From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 5735-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5735: New curses/termcap requirement for linking Emacs, but configure check missing.
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:59:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA215B0.6030403@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NsBxb-0008LT-3S@fencepost.gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:44:02 +0100
>> From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
>> Cc: 
>>
>> Since a couple of days ago may be a week), Emacs requires libncurses
>> development files (or similar termcap/terminfo) to link.  It didn't need that
>> about a week ago.
> 
> I guess that's because of this change:
> 
>   99649: Eli Zaretskii 2010-03-12 Don't use termcap.c on Posix platforms
> 
> I'm sorry for the breakage this caused.  In my defense I can only say
> that it "worked for me" on GNU/Linux.

I guess you have libncurses installed,

> 
> Feel free to add the missing pieces to the configury to fix this.

Done.  It now aborts if tputs isn't found in ncurses, terminfo or termcap.

	Jan D.








      reply	other threads:[~2010-03-18 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-18  7:44 bug#5735: New curses/termcap requirement for linking Emacs, but configure check missing Jan Djärv
2010-03-18  8:16 ` Jan D.
2010-03-18  9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-18 11:59   ` Jan Djärv [this message]

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