From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: A Soare Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Cannot open termcap database Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:11:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259245523 27626 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2009 14:25:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:25:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 26 15:25:16 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 1NDfHV-0005qL-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:25:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDfHU-0001mp-RE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDf4m-0007Ix-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:12:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDf4f-0007Ap-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:12:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51723 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDf4f-0007AM-KZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:11:57 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50254) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDf4e-0004qR-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:11:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NDf4a-0000Bs-AL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:11:52 +0100 Original-Received: from nat-240.ro.66.com ([91.201.80.240]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:11:52 +0100 Original-Received: from alinsoar by nat-240.ro.66.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:11:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 91.201.80.240 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5) 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:117815 Archived-At: I tried to compile emacs for console, and I got the error Cannot open termcap database I solved the problem by installing ncurses-dev. One can introduce a check in ./configure.ac for the existence of terminfo data base when compiling for console and giving a suggestive error message? Alin.