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From: Christian Plate <cplate@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question about build emacs 22
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:34:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irqx6h1d.fsf@myusenet.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141011022.867669.210430@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (wensa's message of "26 Feb 2006 19:30:22 -0800")


"wensa" <zhengwt@gmail.com> writes:
> When I type emacs, it says
>   emacs: Cannot open termcap database file

This problem arises when Emacs is build without ncurses-support.

You should install the ncurses development libraries and then start your
build process. 

On Debian I do this to get ncurses:
chris:~# apt-get install libncurses5-dev

This should fix your problems if you want to run Emacs on a Text
Terminal. If you want to compile GNU Emacs with X-support you have some
choices:

Use configure
  --with-x-toolkit=KIT    use an X toolkit
                              (KIT = yes/lucid/athena/motif/gtk/no)

You probably want GTK. (You will need the corresponding dev-libraries of
course!)

Hope this helps,
  Christian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-01 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-27  3:30 Question about build emacs 22 wensa
2006-03-01 10:46 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-03-01 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-01 20:34 ` Christian Plate [this message]
2006-03-02 23:28 ` Leon

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