From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Seddon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compiling 23.2 on OSX configure error Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292526055 25229 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2010 19:00:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:00:55 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 16 20:00:50 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTJ46-0005Gy-LH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:00:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43452 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PTJ42-0003U7-CN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:00:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46688 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PTJ3s-0003Qx-Qd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:00:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PTJ3i-0002AN-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38318) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PTJ3i-00029u-6z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:00:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTJ3b-0004zA-TS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:00:03 +0100 Original-Received: from tomseddon.plus.com ([212.159.116.120]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:00:03 +0100 Original-Received: from emacs by tomseddon.plus.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:00:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 212.159.116.120 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.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:133746 Archived-At: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa gmail.com> writes: > Hello list,I am trying to compile Emacs 23.2 on my Snow Leopard > machine, and I am getting the following error on the configure step:checking > for library containing tputs... noconfigure: error: I couldn't find > termcap functions (tputs and friends). I had this with the latest version from bazaar. It seems the problem was that I had a 32-bit-only libncurses.a installed by fink. I imagine fink could sort this out for me, but I don't use it any more, so I just deleted my /sw folder instead :) The configure script checks for /sw/lib specifically -- so if you have ever used fink, any libraries it installed will get found and used. Presumably this behaviour is there for a reason? -- so it would be good if the configure error message could mention this explicitly. I'm sure I won't be the only person with an out-of-dat fink folder that they'd kind of forgotten about. (A work around would of course be to build a 32-bit emacs. This seemed to be working, but after a couple of minutes through a `make bootstrap' that was going fine, I decided to try to solve the issue properly instead.) Thanks, --Tom