Re: which ubuntu package has tput

[hput <hput3@fastmail.fm>]

hput <hput3@fastmail.fm> writes:

> The question of where to get the tput functionality comes up when
> compiling emacs.
>

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Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> On 6/17/2022 10:01 AM, hput wrote:
>> Compiling emacs today I tried my best to find out what pkg holds
>> tputs.
>
> tput should be in ncurses-bin:
> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=tput&mode=exactfilename&suite=jammy&arch=any>.

Excelent, thx.

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<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:


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>> tput should be in ncurses-bin:
>> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=tput&mode=exactfilename&suite=jammy&arch=any>.

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> Or install package apt-cache and do an "apt-cache search tput".
More good stuff . . thx

Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> A 'trick' I find useful on many GNU Linux distributions is to use
> whatever the package management system is to list the build dependencies
> for their version of emacs. For example, on Debian based systems, you
> can do something like 
>
> apt build-dep emacs27

Good answer! ... thx.

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

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Eli wrote:
> Can you tell why you needed this information?

Well yes, sure.   I build emacs from source usally a few times per
year... By the time I get around to recompiling, I've usually
forgotten all the bits needed to do it.  I end up stumbling thru
hitting problems and having to go looking for answers.

And in general spended 5-6 times as much effort and time as it should
take.

But this time, I decided to keep all info gathered in one spot, well
named so I can find it in a moment, and have it on hand when I
compile emacs.

If I live to compile emacs again (and at my age that is up for grabs)
I hope to spend not a moment more than is needed.

Something new happend compiling emacs 2 days ago.  I got thru
./configure after a few downloads of missing stuff.  ./configure ran
thru without a hitch.

I then ran  "make bootstrap" to rebuild everything.  And there it was
uncovered that I had no "makeinfo".  When usually if that is missing,
I would have been made aware during ./configure and would install texinfo.

I actually posted on this group about it.  Thinking it might be
considered a bug and asking if I should submit a bug report. 

> This page has some advice:
>
>   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5563354/how-to-know-which-library-a-specific-function-is-defined-in

Wow, I hope not to have to go to those depths.  but the answers in
this thread will be a heck of a leg up, come compile time.

Thx Eli, always good input.