From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:24:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <200912041924.nB4JOF5w009028@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> References: <7dbe73ed0912031141h781e61d1l18776fb696cc4916@mail.gmail.com> <200912032120.nB3LK3MN028567@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912040453.nB44rwPp002343@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912041717.nB4HHe8H008078@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <83zl5yk158.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259954884 24883 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 19:28:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:28:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, mathias.dahl@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 20:27:56 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 1NGdop-0004Si-Jg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:27:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGdop-0006iH-Ao for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:27:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGdoV-0006bh-Np for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:27:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGdoQ-0006ZT-5x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:27:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57341 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGdoP-0006ZQ-WA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:27:30 -0500 Original-Received: from colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.153]:56979) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGdoN-0003Vj-Ff; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:27:27 -0500 Original-Received: from godzilla.ics.uci.edu (godzilla.ics.uci.edu [128.195.10.101]) by colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nB4JOF5O025501 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:24:15 -0800 Original-Received: (from dann@localhost) by godzilla.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id nB4JOF5w009028; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:24:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83zl5yk158.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:08:35 +0200") Original-Lines: 21 X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please send mail to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu or more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: nB4JOF5O025501 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:118270 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:17:40 -0800 (PST) > > From: Dan Nicolaescu > > Cc: A Soare , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > > Mathias Dahl > > > > > Looks like you're right. Maybe we should throw away src/termcap.c > > > altogether, or only use it if a configure flag is given. > > > > Throw it away please. I don't think we support any platform where it > > is necessary. > > MSDOS needs it. I could move all the code it needs to msdos.c, if > that's what people want, but it sounds easier to leave termcap.c in > place and just move termcap.o to MSDOS_OBJ in src/Makefile.in. Then > no other platform will link it in. IMHO: given that it's only used in a single platform, it should be in a platform specific file, that will eliminate any possibility of confusion.