From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John ffitch Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3 Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:21:55 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <9355-Sat23Mar2013124946+0000-jpff@codemist.co.uk> <8jk3opadki.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364635355 27210 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2013 09:22:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14040@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 30 10:23:01 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ULs03-0007dh-At for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:22:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULrze-00055D-Vf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULrzX-00054v-Nm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:22:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULrzS-0003FG-EB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:22:27 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULrzS-0003FC-Ay for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:22:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ULs22-00081R-Js for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:25:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: John ffitch Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:25:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14040 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14040-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14040.136463548030804 (code B ref 14040); Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14040) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Mar 2013 09:24:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52033 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ULs1f-00080m-Tb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from west.codemist.co.uk ([217.155.197.248]:10815 helo=codemist.co.uk) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ULs1d-00080c-MN for 14040@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:24:38 -0400 Original-Received: from snout.codemist.co.uk ([172.16.4.42] ident=jpff) by codemist.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ULrz1-0002Or-Kv; Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:21:55 +0000 In-Reply-To: <8jk3opadki.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x 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:72997 Archived-At: I finally managed to solve the issue -- what was missing was xml2 so the message was misleading. No idea why it was missing -- I had just upgraded from suSE12.2 to 12.3 and it sems to have failed to keep xml2 However the configure script did not check. So there is still an issue, but it no longer affects me On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Glenn Morris wrote: > john ffitch wrote: > >> I have failed to build emacs from bzr on a SuSE 12.3 machine. Asking >> in the SuSE forum I was pointed at >> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?expand=1&file=emacs-24.1-tinfo.dif&package=emacs&project=editors >> which patches the configure script with a new library for tputs >> (tinfo). Clwearly I could apply the patch but it would go away. Can >> it be applied in the master sources? > > This doesn't make sense, because configure.ac already checks for tinfo, > since 2012-05-01. Perhaps you could give the actual details of the build > failure. > > (The fact that configure.ac hardcodes LIBS_TERMCAP on many platforms, > ignoring the test it has just done, has always seem dodgy to me.) > > > >