From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:20:03 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200912032120.nB3LK3MN028567@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0912031141h781e61d1l18776fb696cc4916@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:41:22 +0100")
Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:11 PM, A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr> wrote:
> > I tried to compile emacs for console, and I got the error
> >
> > Cannot open termcap database
> >
> >
> > I solved the problem by installing ncurses-dev.
> >
> > One can introduce a check in ./configure.ac for the existence of terminfo data
> > base when compiling for console and giving a suggestive error message?
>
> I get bitten by this each time I compile and install Emacs on a new
> Ubuntu GNU/Linux machine. Each time I have to surf around to
> understand what to do about it. If it is possible for "us" to fix it
> it would be nice.
configure could try to detect either the termcap or terminfo headers and
if none are present should error out. All the systems we support
nowadays that use ttys have either termcap or terminfo, so we don't lose
anything.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-03 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-26 14:11 Cannot open termcap database A Soare
2009-12-03 19:41 ` Mathias Dahl
2009-12-03 21:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2009-12-04 1:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 4:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 14:21 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-04 17:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-04 19:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-04 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-05 10:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-05 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-05 11:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-05 12:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-12 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-12 15:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-12-12 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-28 5:22 ` Ken Hori
2010-01-28 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-28 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-12 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-12-08 8:23 A. Soare
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