From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cannot open termcap database Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:16:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0912031141h781e61d1l18776fb696cc4916@mail.gmail.com> <200912032120.nB3LK3MN028567@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912040453.nB44rwPp002343@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259936281 26113 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 14:18:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:18:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: A Soare , Mathias Dahl , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 15:17:54 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 1NGYyK-00078z-Oe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:17:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34581 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGYyK-0001nS-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGYxV-0001EE-7k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGYxQ-0001An-Az for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:16:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48165 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGYxQ-0001Aa-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:16:28 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:50039 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGYxP-0006jH-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:16:28 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhcFAPenGEtFpZ1E/2dsb2JhbACBTtVDhDMEihuDBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,341,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="50680118" Original-Received: from 69-165-157-68.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.157.68]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 04 Dec 2009 09:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 6742886C4; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:16:26 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200912040453.nB44rwPp002343@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:53:58 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:118255 Archived-At: > The problem is different. > If both termcap and terminfo headers are missing emacs uses > src/termcap.c files. > 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. Stefan