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24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: john ffitch <jpff <at> codemist.co.uk>
Cc: 14040 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:20:13 -0400

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.)

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