* Emacs 21.2 and termcap problem
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@ 2002-05-13 5:41 ` Janusz S. Bień
2002-05-13 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Janusz S. Bień @ 2002-05-13 5:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
I have just compiled Emacs 21.2 on my home Woody Debian computer. I
have done everything "as usual" (I started to compile Emacs with some
pretest version); there was no substantial changes of my system in the
meantime. However, 21.2 does not start reporting
Cannot open termcap database file
Does this mean that Emacs really tries to open termcap file while my
system uses terminfo?
Anyway, what do you recommend me to do?
Regards
Janusz
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2002-05-13 5:41 ` Emacs 21.2 and termcap problem Janusz S. Bień
@ 2002-05-13 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-15 5:41 ` Solved: " Janusz S. Bień
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2002-05-13 10:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs
On 13 May 2002 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl wrote:
> I have just compiled Emacs 21.2 on my home Woody Debian computer. I
> have done everything "as usual" (I started to compile Emacs with some
> pretest version); there was no substantial changes of my system in the
> meantime. However, 21.2 does not start reporting
>
> Cannot open termcap database file
>
> Does this mean that Emacs really tries to open termcap file while my
> system uses terminfo?
Yes, it means Emacs tries to open termcap. You can see the message in
term.c, together with the #ifdef that conditions it.
> Anyway, what do you recommend me to do?
I'd suggest to make sure you have the latest version of ncurses installed
and visible to the Emacs build at configure time. Old versions of
ncurses sometimes dupe the configure script into thinking your system
doesn't support terminfo.
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* Solved: Emacs 21.2 and termcap problem
2002-05-13 10:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2002-05-15 5:41 ` Janusz S. Bień
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From: Janusz S. Bień @ 2002-05-15 5:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs
On Mon, 13 May 2002 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:
> On 13 May 2002 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl wrote:
>
> > I have just compiled Emacs 21.2 on my home Woody Debian computer. I
> > have done everything "as usual" (I started to compile Emacs with some
> > pretest version); there was no substantial changes of my system in the
> > meantime. However, 21.2 does not start reporting
> >
> > Cannot open termcap database file
> >
[...]
> I'd suggest to make sure you have the latest version of ncurses installed
> and visible to the Emacs build at configure time. Old versions of
> ncurses sometimes dupe the configure script into thinking your system
> doesn't support terminfo.
The advice worked, thanks.
Janusz
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