From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: A Soare <alinsoar@voila.fr>, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:21:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4x2rf9f.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7ht2vncd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:16:26 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> But at run time it tries to look for /etc/termcap which modern
>> distributions do not install (they install the terminfo database).
>
> Looks like you're right. Maybe we should throw away src/termcap.c
> altogether, or only use it if a configure flag is given.
Of course, given modern systems, we could probably just include our own
termcap file (and a simple search path for searching for a termcap file
to use) with about 5 entries and cover 99% of uses...
-Miles
--
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it
has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-04 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-26 14:11 Cannot open termcap database A Soare
2009-12-03 19:41 ` Mathias Dahl
2009-12-03 21:20 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 1:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 4:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 14:21 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-12-04 17:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-04 19:24 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-04 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-04 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-05 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-05 10:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-05 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-05 11:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-12-05 12:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-12 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-12 15:55 ` Chong Yidong
2009-12-12 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-28 5:22 ` Ken Hori
2010-01-28 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-28 19:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-12 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-12-08 8:23 A. Soare
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