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"Charles" <chp516@gmail.com> writes:

> After I compiled emacs with "make bootstrap", I tryied to start emacs,
> but I got
> the following message: "Cannot open termcap databases file". I think I
> have termcap
> correctly installed because I can successfully "man termcap".
> What should I do to solve this problem?
> Must I configure with option "--prefix=/usr"?

Install libncurses5-dev (or its equivalent) and compile again.