From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file? Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:38:21 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87u0cmtwmz.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <1136166310.641087.263520@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136220902 22665 80.91.229.2 (2 Jan 2006 16:55:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 02 17:55:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EtSxS-0004fA-TF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:54:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EtSz2-0005cm-Rk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:56:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P+pHrUgTZdUqSnrGLHcvwOwTzMc= Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.26.159 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1136219901 67.71.26.159 (Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:38:21 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:38:21 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136733 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32352 Archived-At: > 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"? Please read carefully INSTALL.CVS, then send a description of your problem to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org with as much info as possible. Check also etc/PROBLEMS to see if your problem is similar to a known one. Stefan