From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:33:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83tyw6jzzq.fsf@gnu.org> 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> <200912041924.nB4JOF5w009028@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259955269 26357 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 19:34:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, mathias.dahl@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 20:34:21 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 1NGdv1-0007B8-7X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:34:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGdv0-0003KY-N9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:34:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGduu-0003IP-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:34:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGduq-00038T-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:34:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33711 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGduq-000381-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:34:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:53377) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGduq-0004FI-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:34:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KU500B007IHR600@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:34:07 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.213.252]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KU5006DN7OT8TI0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:34:07 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <200912041924.nB4JOF5w009028@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:118271 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:24:15 -0800 (PST) > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, alinsoar@voila.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > mathias.dahl@gmail.com > > 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. Moving it into MSDOS_OBJ makes it platform specific. But I will go with any decision Stefan and Yidong make in this matter.