From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:41:22 +0100 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0912031141h781e61d1l18776fb696cc4916@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259869322 9485 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2009 19:42:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: A Soare Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 03 20:41:55 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 1NGHYo-00033L-FH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:41:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGHYn-00029z-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:41:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGHYj-00027z-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:41:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGHYe-000230-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:41:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33573 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGHYe-00022w-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f188.google.com ([209.85.223.188]:44304) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGHYe-0003LJ-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:41:44 -0500 Original-Received: by iwn26 with SMTP id 26so1057058iwn.14 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:41:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=V39NF6Yh08wGneXUdpTSrB2I7fPPfhBIWNDywLfrZbw=; b=w3/i+4zopuGT8Fm+FgzY0rLrfYNE8LElEgBelT80ndRJE7e2wRZI3lLuIJYgVLL8lV tlB8VDB5OZQFhEyH4Uw3dftOXGUrnJW0kpKnd+yqWSLM8MYLnDajNyCvg8GguPe8dr2+ sIz50W3JyAdBuRePJv8Z/tofkr1OGOSCd1mYY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=MwVN4Xc/oz7e85Slpueqo+fClQkiFwt/+Zq66CPXVoL2jNR3Ofolkj5qmvk2n2SEG2 QEkP2K8QIi9UBU97VUefI1cJhzFab6gk+Y7+F+giook/LWGhFHvty7V5Bc4t45sY1ZLz HCuIu9Sa5Au2huizlZG0gzEb5P7G4GRAs+iY0= Original-Received: by 10.231.125.28 with SMTP id w28mr471686ibr.50.1259869302434; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:41:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:118204 Archived-At: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:11 PM, A Soare 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. /Mathias