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 14:46:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0912031141h781e61d1l18776fb696cc4916@mail.gmail.com> <200912032120.nB3LK3MN028567@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912040453.nB44rwPp002343@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <200912041717.nB4HHe8H008078@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <83zl5yk158.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259956083 28881 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 19:48:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, mathias.dahl@gmail.com, Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 20:47:56 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 1NGe89-0004cR-Kp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:47:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59322 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGe89-0007VU-BA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:47:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGe6r-0006tE-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGe6m-0006rL-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:46:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44727 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGe6m-0006rH-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:46:28 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:38771 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGe6j-0005CT-Rd; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:46:25 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhgFAFn1GEtFpZ1E/2dsb2JhbACBTtVnhDMEihs X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,343,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="50704645" 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 14:46:24 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B68B2EB9D1; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:46:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83zl5yk158.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:08:35 +0200") 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:118272 Archived-At: >> > Looks like you're right. Maybe we should throw away src/termcap.c >> > altogether, or only use it if a configure flag is given. >> Throw it away please. I don't think we support any platform where it >> is necessary. > MSDOS needs it. I could move all the code it needs to msdos.c, if > that's what people want, but it sounds easier to leave termcap.c in > place and just move termcap.o to MSDOS_OBJ in src/Makefile.in. Then > no other platform will link it in. Moving the code is not a good idea. If it's still in use, then we may as well keep it as is. So we should simply change the configure script so that it never uses it except under MSDOS, or upon some other explicit request. Stefan