From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: john ffitch <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
Cc: 14040@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:20:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8jk3opadki.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9355-Sat23Mar2013124946+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> (john ffitch's message of "Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:49:46 +0000")
john ffitch wrote:
> I have failed to build emacs from bzr on a SuSE 12.3 machine. Asking
> in the SuSE forum I was pointed at
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?expand=1&file=emacs-24.1-tinfo.dif&package=emacs&project=editors
> which patches the configure script with a new library for tputs
> (tinfo). Clwearly I could apply the patch but it would go away. Can
> it be applied in the master sources?
This doesn't make sense, because configure.ac already checks for tinfo,
since 2012-05-01. Perhaps you could give the actual details of the build
failure.
(The fact that configure.ac hardcodes LIBS_TERMCAP on many platforms,
ignoring the test it has just done, has always seem dodgy to me.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-30 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-23 12:49 bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3 john ffitch
2013-03-23 13:25 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-03-30 1:20 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-03-30 9:21 ` John ffitch
2013-03-30 16:26 ` Glenn Morris
2013-03-30 17:10 ` John ffitch
2013-04-05 17:25 ` Glenn Morris
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