From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:17:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <200912041717.nB4HHe8H008078@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <7dbe73ed0912031141h781e61d1l18776fb696cc4916@mail.gmail.com> <200912032120.nB3LK3MN028567@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912040453.nB44rwPp002343@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259949327 6340 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 17:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 17:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: A Soare , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Mathias Dahl To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 18:55:20 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NGcNA-0005qu-Hd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:55:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGcN9-0002Gw-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGbqQ-0007Mp-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGbqL-0007Iw-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38153 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGbqL-0007Ic-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:9117) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGbqL-0000Zg-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from paul-mcgann-v0.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.147]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGbor-00070q-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:19:50 -0500 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by paul-mcgann-v0.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nB4HHfmO003024 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:17:41 -0800 Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id nB4HHe8H008078; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:17:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:16:26 -0500") Original-Lines: 13 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please send mail to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu or more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: nB4HHfmO003024 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118263 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > > The problem is different. > > If both termcap and terminfo headers are missing emacs uses > > src/termcap.c files. > > But at run time it tries to look for /etc/termcap which modern > > distributions do not install (they install the terminfo database). > > Looks like you're right. Maybe we should throw away src/termcap.c > altogether, or only use it if a configure flag is given. Throw it away please. I don't think we support any platform where it is necessary.