GNU bug report logs - #5735
New curses/termcap requirement for linking Emacs, but configure check missing.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 5735-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 5735-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5735: New curses/termcap requirement for linking Emacs,	but
	configure check missing.
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:59:44 +0100

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
>> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:44:02 +0100
>> From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
>> Cc: 
>>
>> Since a couple of days ago may be a week), Emacs requires libncurses
>> development files (or similar termcap/terminfo) to link.  It didn't need that
>> about a week ago.
> 
> I guess that's because of this change:
> 
>   99649: Eli Zaretskii 2010-03-12 Don't use termcap.c on Posix platforms
> 
> I'm sorry for the breakage this caused.  In my defense I can only say
> that it "worked for me" on GNU/Linux.

I guess you have libncurses installed,

> 
> Feel free to add the missing pieces to the configury to fix this.

Done.  It now aborts if tputs isn't found in ncurses, terminfo or termcap.

	Jan D.
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