From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3960: 23.1.50; "Cannot open termcap database error" error Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:41:50 -0400 Message-ID: <87k51lq1n5.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> Reply-To: Chong Yidong , 3960@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249254495 29031 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2009 23:08:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 23:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 3960@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Bastien Guerry Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 03 01:08:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MXk9v-0000fv-Vb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:08:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXk9v-0001QQ-MN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:08:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXk8q-0000s2-Hc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MXk8k-0000ks-Tm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:06:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53889 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXk8k-0000kF-HH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:06:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:39897) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXk8j-0002Ul-7A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n72N6kVK001439; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 16:06:49 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n72Mo5L5031687; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:50:05 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Chong Yidong Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:50:05 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3960 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3960-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3960.124925286931129 (code B ref 3960); Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:50:05 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3960) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 2 Aug 2009 22:41:09 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu (CYD.MIT.EDU [18.115.2.24]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n72Mf52U031124 for <3960@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 15:41:06 -0700 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0462E57E280; Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:41:51 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Resent-Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:06:59 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:29813 Archived-At: > Under Debian testing, libncurses5-dev is required to build Emacs. > Otherwise it throws a "Cannot open termcap database" error. See the PROBLEMS file: ** Emacs does not start, complaining that it cannot open termcap database file. If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern systems do), this could happen if the proper version of ncurses is not visible to the Emacs configure script (i.e. it cannot be found along the usual path the linker looks for libraries). It can happen because your version of ncurses is obsolete, or is available only in form of binaries. The solution is to install an up-to-date version of ncurses in the developer's form (header files, static libraries and symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) it constitutes a separate package.