From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9736: Configure error for emacs-24.0.90 with AIX 5.3 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:40:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <30EBBEDA-8475-4DCE-8089-EB519C4F11DB@gmail.com> <4f62jucgox.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318441311 20334 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2011 17:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:41:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Perry Smith , 9736@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 19:41:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2oL-0008IL-9l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49870 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2oK-0000Q6-QM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2oG-0000Ku-DT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2oF-00016R-2b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:41:40 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2oE-00016N-W2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2oc-00011n-ER for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:42:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Dan Nicolaescu Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:42:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9736 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9736-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9736.13184412753846 (code B ref 9736); Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:42:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9736) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Oct 2011 17:41:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2nr-0000zz-7M for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2no-0000zq-QX for 9736@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from dann by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RE2nQ-0003tS-8J; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:40:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4f62jucgox.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:34:06 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:42:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:52595 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > The error message says: > > I couldn't find termcap functions (tputs and friends). Maybe some > development libraries/packages are missing? Try installing > libncurses-dev(el), libterminfo-dev(el) or similar. > > (I think the wording could be improved a bit.) > > configure checks for the tputs function in any of libncurses, > libterminfo, and libtermcap. Your system does not seem to have any of > them: > > collect2: library libncurses not found > collect2: library libterminfo not found > collect2: library libtermcap not found > > Please try either installing one of these libraries and its header > files, or if they are already installed explicitly telling configure > where they are; eg: > > CFLAGS=-I/path/to/terminfo/include LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/terminfo/lib ./configure I think the configure test is incorrect. For example on Solaris this would find libtermcap, where previous emacs version would use libcurses, which would be the better option.