From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:21:48 +0900 Message-ID: <87k4x2rf9f.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <7dbe73ed0912031141h781e61d1l18776fb696cc4916@mail.gmail.com> <200912032120.nB3LK3MN028567@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912040453.nB44rwPp002343@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259936635 27176 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 14:23:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: A Soare , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Mathias Dahl To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 15:23:48 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 1NGZ2t-0002cx-6w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:22:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGZ2s-0000IK-TH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGZ2l-0000Ex-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:21:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGZ2h-00007t-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:21:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37144 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGZ2h-00007m-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:21:55 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp12.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.74]:38185) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGZ2f-0007J0-8V; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:21:53 -0500 Original-Received: from 218.231.212.166.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.231.212.166] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp12.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1NGZ2b-0005ac-2n; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:21:49 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3CC67DF8B; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:21:48 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:16:26 -0500") Original-Lines: 16 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com 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:118256 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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