* bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
@ 2011-10-12 18:54 Sven Joachim
2011-12-26 15:28 ` Jan Djärv
2012-05-01 1:08 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sven Joachim @ 2011-10-12 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9741; +Cc: Sven Joachim
Package: emacs
Severity: wishlist
It is possible to build a separate terminfo library from the ncurses
sources by configuring ncurses with the "--with-termlib" option. This
library is usually called libtinfo, and several GNU/Linux distributions
are using this option; Fedora since Version 7 (May 2007), Ubuntu since
version 11.10 (to be released tomorrow) and Debian in testing/unstable
for two weeks.
If ncurses is built this way, Emacs only needs symbols from libtinfo,
but with the current `configure' script links against libncurses
unnecessarily. It would be nice if `configure' were looking for
libtinfo and prefer to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.
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* bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
2011-10-12 18:54 bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses Sven Joachim
@ 2011-12-26 15:28 ` Jan Djärv
2011-12-26 18:24 ` Sven Joachim
2012-05-01 1:08 ` Glenn Morris
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jan Djärv @ 2011-12-26 15:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sven Joachim; +Cc: 9741
Hello.
Is this regarded as a feature, for after the release?
Jan D.
12 okt 2011 kl. 20:54 skrev Sven Joachim:
> Package: emacs
> Severity: wishlist
>
> It is possible to build a separate terminfo library from the ncurses
> sources by configuring ncurses with the "--with-termlib" option. This
> library is usually called libtinfo, and several GNU/Linux distributions
> are using this option; Fedora since Version 7 (May 2007), Ubuntu since
> version 11.10 (to be released tomorrow) and Debian in testing/unstable
> for two weeks.
>
> If ncurses is built this way, Emacs only needs symbols from libtinfo,
> but with the current `configure' script links against libncurses
> unnecessarily. It would be nice if `configure' were looking for
> libtinfo and prefer to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.
>
>
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* bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
2011-12-26 15:28 ` Jan Djärv
@ 2011-12-26 18:24 ` Sven Joachim
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Sven Joachim @ 2011-12-26 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Djärv; +Cc: 9741
On 2011-12-26 16:28 +0100, Jan Djärv wrote:
> Is this regarded as a feature, for after the release?
It's not particularly urgent, since libncurses is rather ubiquitous on
GNU/Linux, and the extra linkage probably does not have much impact on
startup time and memory footprint.
> 12 okt 2011 kl. 20:54 skrev Sven Joachim:
>
>> Package: emacs
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> It is possible to build a separate terminfo library from the ncurses
>> sources by configuring ncurses with the "--with-termlib" option. This
>> library is usually called libtinfo, and several GNU/Linux distributions
>> are using this option; Fedora since Version 7 (May 2007), Ubuntu since
>> version 11.10 (to be released tomorrow) and Debian in testing/unstable
>> for two weeks.
>>
>> If ncurses is built this way, Emacs only needs symbols from libtinfo,
>> but with the current `configure' script links against libncurses
>> unnecessarily. It would be nice if `configure' were looking for
>> libtinfo and prefer to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.
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* bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
2011-10-12 18:54 bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses Sven Joachim
2011-12-26 15:28 ` Jan Djärv
@ 2012-05-01 1:08 ` Glenn Morris
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2012-05-01 1:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9741-done
Version: 24.2
Sven Joachim wrote:
> It would be nice if `configure' were looking for libtinfo and prefer
> to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.
Implemented (for gnu* systems).
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