Question about build emacs 22

Question about build emacs 22

[wensa]

After building emacs 22 from cvs following these steps
  $ ./configure
  $ make
  $ cd lisp
  $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
  $ cd ..
  $ make
  $ make install

When I type emacs, it says
  emacs: Cannot open termcap database file

What's problem, how to solve it?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Question about build emacs 22

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.02.2006 um 04:30 schrieb wensa:

> When I type emacs, it says
>   emacs: Cannot open termcap database file
>
> What's problem, how to solve it?

I presume you are on some Linux: you need to install some dev (like  
"developer") packages. termcap requires ncurses ...


You probably will need more. The hard way is to look at configure's  
output and think of what might be needed to install to turn the many  
NO into YES ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

"One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who  
have only interests." - John Stuart Mill

Re: Question about build emacs 22

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "wensa" <zhengwt@gmail.com>
> Date: 26 Feb 2006 19:30:22 -0800
> 
> After building emacs 22 from cvs following these steps
>   $ ./configure
>   $ make
>   $ cd lisp
>   $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
>   $ cd ..
>   $ make
>   $ make install
> 
> When I type emacs, it says
>   emacs: Cannot open termcap database file
> 
> What's problem, how to solve it?

Please post any problems you have with building the CVS version to
emacs-devel@gnu.org.

Re: Question about build emacs 22

[Christian Plate]

"wensa" <zhengwt@gmail.com> writes:
> When I type emacs, it says
>   emacs: Cannot open termcap database file

This problem arises when Emacs is build without ncurses-support.

You should install the ncurses development libraries and then start your
build process. 

On Debian I do this to get ncurses:
chris:~# apt-get install libncurses5-dev

This should fix your problems if you want to run Emacs on a Text
Terminal. If you want to compile GNU Emacs with X-support you have some
choices:

Use configure
  --with-x-toolkit=KIT    use an X toolkit
                              (KIT = yes/lucid/athena/motif/gtk/no)

You probably want GTK. (You will need the corresponding dev-libraries of
course!)

Hope this helps,
  Christian

Re: Question about build emacs 22

[Leon]

You need to have ncurses/ncurses-devel installed.

"wensa" <zhengwt@gmail.com> writes:

> After building emacs 22 from cvs following these steps
>   $ ./configure
>   $ make
>   $ cd lisp
>   $ make recompile EMACS=../src/emacs
>   $ cd ..
>   $ make
>   $ make install
>
> When I type emacs, it says
>   emacs: Cannot open termcap database file
>
> What's problem, how to solve it?
>
> Thanks in advance!

-- 
Leon