From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>
Cc: 7844-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7844: when ncurses not available, curses assumed
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:43:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mucumdx3.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmk_KW5XqKkbre+D1ODL_Z3LM_5=0TvhqrSZoQNvS7uOQw@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:36:56 +0200")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Recently, when building the Emacs-23 branch on my Cygwin machine, I'd
>> forgotten to install curses-devel. The configure script should have
>> failed, but instead, compilation proceeded until linking, when the job
>> failed with /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>> cannot find -lcurses
>>
>> The configure script ought to look for ncurses, then curses, and fail
>> if neither is found (or at least unset TERMINFO)
>
> This bug was reported 8 years ago but unfortunately never got a reply
> at the time. Is this still an issue on modern versions of Emacs?
More information was requested, but none was given within 5 weeks, so
I'll go ahead and assume this has been fixed in the years since this
was reported.
If this is still an issue with a modern version of Emacs, please
reopen the bug report.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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2011-01-14 6:05 bug#7844: when ncurses not available, curses assumed Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 15:36 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-17 20:43 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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