bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

[john ffitch]

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?

Written on a 12.2 machine which is OK
==John ff




In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.4 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4)
 of 2013-03-21 on harvey
Bzr revision: 112103 juri@jurta.org-20130320230440-37x4m47mksi3qwx4
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11203000
Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Dired by name

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f S P A <tab> <return> <escape> > <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <backspace> 2 C-x 
C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> C-x C-f T e l <tab> <return> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> 
d d <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> d d d d d d 
d d d <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> x t <backspace> 
y e s <return> <prior> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> 
<return> C-x k <return> d x y e s <return> y e s <return> 
M-m M-x k <return> C-g C-g C-x k <return> M-x r e p 
o <tab> r t <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Parsing /home/jpff/.mailrc... done
Invalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face [4 times]
Making completion list...
Invalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face [2 times]
Invalid face reference: my-tab-face [16 times]
QuitInvalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face
Invalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face
QuitInvalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face
Invalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode
mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 gmm-utils mailheader help-mode
mailabbrev flyspell ispell mailalias mailcrypt mail-extr comint
ansi-color ring sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr
mail-utils dired eldoc help-fns cal-julian image-file crypt crypt++
crypt+pgp-pub paren uniquify nadvice view mule-util cal-china
cal-bahai cal-islam cal-hebrew lunar solar cal-dst appt diary-lib
diary-loaddefs holidays hol-loaddefs cal-menu easymenu calendar
cal-loaddefs time time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer
loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

==John ffitch

bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 23.03.2013 13:49, schrieb john ffitch:
> 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?
>
> Written on a 12.2 machine which is OK
> ==John ff
>
>
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.4 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.4)
>   of 2013-03-21 on harvey
> Bzr revision: 112103 juri@jurta.org-20130320230440-37x4m47mksi3qwx4
> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11203000
> Important settings:
>    value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
>    value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=local
>    locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>    default enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Dired by name
>
> Minor modes in effect:
>    auto-image-file-mode: t
>    show-paren-mode: t
>    display-time-mode: t
>    tooltip-mode: t
>    mouse-wheel-mode: t
>    menu-bar-mode: t
>    file-name-shadow-mode: t
>    global-font-lock-mode: t
>    font-lock-mode: t
>    auto-composition-mode: t
>    auto-encryption-mode: t
>    auto-compression-mode: t
>    buffer-read-only: t
>    line-number-mode: t
>    transient-mark-mode: t
>
> Recent input:
> C-x C-f S P A <tab> <return> <escape> > <down-mouse-1>
> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <backspace> 2 C-x
> C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> C-x C-f T e l <tab> <return>
> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
> d d <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> d d d d d d
> d d d <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> x t <backspace>
> y e s <return> <prior> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
> <return> C-x k <return> d x y e s <return> y e s <return>
> M-m M-x k <return> C-g C-g C-x k <return> M-x r e p
> o <tab> r t <tab> <return>
>
> Recent messages:
> Parsing /home/jpff/.mailrc... done
> Invalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face [4 times]
> Making completion list...
> Invalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face [2 times]
> Invalid face reference: my-tab-face [16 times]
> QuitInvalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face
> Invalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face
> QuitInvalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face
> Invalid face reference: my-trailing-space-face
> Making completion list...
>
> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
>
> Features:
> (shadow emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode
> mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 gmm-utils mailheader help-mode
> mailabbrev flyspell ispell mailalias mailcrypt mail-extr comint
> ansi-color ring sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr
> mail-utils dired eldoc help-fns cal-julian image-file crypt crypt++
> crypt+pgp-pub paren uniquify nadvice view mule-util cal-china
> cal-bahai cal-islam cal-hebrew lunar solar cal-dst appt diary-lib
> diary-loaddefs holidays hol-loaddefs cal-menu easymenu calendar
> cal-loaddefs time time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
> lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image
> regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page
> menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
> syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
> vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
> romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
> case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer
> loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay
> sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget
> hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind
> inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
> move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)
>
> ==John ffitch
>
>
>
>

Matter also was mentioned at german list

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-de/2013-02/msg00488.html

had to install ncurses-devel

Andreas

bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

[Glenn Morris]

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.)

bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

[John ffitch]

I finally managed to solve the issue -- what was missing was xml2
so the message was misleading.  No idea why it was missing -- I had just 
upgraded from suSE12.2 to 12.3 and it sems to have failed to keep xml2
However the configure script did not check.

So there is still an issue, but it no longer affects me


On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Glenn Morris wrote:

> 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.)
>
>
>
>

bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

[Glenn Morris]

John ffitch wrote:

> I finally managed to solve the issue -- what was missing was xml2 so
> the message was misleading. No idea why it was missing -- I had just
> upgraded from suSE12.2 to 12.3 and it sems to have failed to keep xml2
> However the configure script did not check.
>
> So there is still an issue, but it no longer affects me

Since you aren't giving us the details of what the issue is, we can't do
anything about it.

bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

[John ffitch]

I thought I did give the detail.

Configure reported that it could not find tputs, but it was barfing on not 
finding -lxml2

The machine is sulking at present so i cannot retrieve the configure log

bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

[Glenn Morris]

John ffitch wrote:

> Configure reported that it could not find tputs, but it was barfing on
> not finding -lxml2
>
> The machine is sulking at present so i cannot retrieve the configure log

The config.log is the necessary detail to do anything about this.