From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:24:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87fwg7xkbo.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> References: <871uuioxbh.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1324923939 9512 80.91.229.12 (26 Dec 2011 18:25:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9741@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 26 19:25:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RfFEq-00045L-JU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:25:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RfFEq-0000m8-4k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:25:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RfFEo-0000ls-2o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RfFEn-0003Kc-1A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RfFEm-0003KV-Vh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RfFHG-0004dm-HG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:28:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Sven Joachim Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:28:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9741 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9741-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9741.132492402717751 (code B ref 9741); Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:28:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9741) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Dec 2011 18:27:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RfFGM-0004cG-JM for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:27:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]) by debbugs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RfFGJ-0004c7-IQ for 9741@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Dec 2011 18:24:28 -0000 Original-Received: from p4FC77CB0.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO turtle.gmx.de) [79.199.124.176] by mail.gmx.net (mp034) with SMTP; 26 Dec 2011 19:24:28 +0100 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19CbdgUa4pC4TUkX7g6zPftHISye+Tu6PkInuFWFV hdQeG1j7aC0GS6 Original-Received: by turtle.gmx.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 474EE3F49C; Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:24:28 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: ("Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?="'s message of "Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:28:17 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:28:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55209 Archived-At: On 2011-12-26 16:28 +0100, Jan Djärv wrote: > Is this regarded as a feature, for after the release? It's not particularly urgent, since libncurses is rather ubiquitous on GNU/Linux, and the extra linkage probably does not have much impact on startup time and memory footprint. > 12 okt 2011 kl. 20:54 skrev Sven Joachim: > >> Package: emacs >> Severity: wishlist >> >> It is possible to build a separate terminfo library from the ncurses >> sources by configuring ncurses with the "--with-termlib" option. This >> library is usually called libtinfo, and several GNU/Linux distributions >> are using this option; Fedora since Version 7 (May 2007), Ubuntu since >> version 11.10 (to be released tomorrow) and Debian in testing/unstable >> for two weeks. >> >> If ncurses is built this way, Emacs only needs symbols from libtinfo, >> but with the current `configure' script links against libncurses >> unnecessarily. It would be nice if `configure' were looking for >> libtinfo and prefer to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.