Subject: bug#6190: closed (Re: bug#6190: 24.0.50; patch to configure emacs to use terminfo on recent NetBSD.)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 04:09:02 +0000

Your bug report

#6190: 24.0.50; patch to configure emacs to use terminfo on recent NetBSD.

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#6190: 24.0.50; patch to configure emacs to use terminfo on recent NetBSD.
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 00:08:46 -0400
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Thanks; applied.

Subject: 24.0.50; patch to configure emacs to use terminfo on recent NetBSD.
From: enami tsugutomo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:44:13 +0900
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On earlier this year, NetBSD have introduced terminfo in its development
tree and termcap library is replaced with small library to provide
minimum compatibility.  Specially, tgetent() is changed not to store
termcap entry in the supplied buffer.  Since emacs termcap code expects
actual entry filled, emacs doesn't work anymore on such system (strlen
call on the buffer returns meaningless value).

I guess it is better to configure emacs to use terminfo instead on
NetBSD which has terminfo.

Here is a changes to configure.in to check availability of terminfo:

=== modified file 'configure.in'
--- configure.in	2010-05-14 03:05:00 +0000
+++ configure.in	2010-05-14 04:00:58 +0000
@@ -2620,7 +2620,7 @@
 
 ## Use terminfo instead of termcap?
 ## Note only system files NOT using terminfo are:
-## bsd-common, freebsd < 40000, ms-w32, msdos, netbsd, and
+## bsd-common, freebsd < 40000, ms-w32, msdos, netbsd < 599002500, and
 ## darwin|gnu without ncurses.
 TERMINFO=no
 LIBS_TERMCAP=
@@ -2662,13 +2662,22 @@
     fi
     ;;
 
+  netbsd)
+    if test $ac_cv_search_tputs = -lterminfo; then
+      TERMINFO=yes
+      LIBS_TERMCAP="-lterminfo"
+    else
+      LIBS_TERMCAP="-ltermcap"
+    fi
+    ;;
+
 esac
 
 case "$opsys" in
   ## hpux: Make sure we get select from libc rather than from libcurses
   ##  because libcurses on HPUX 10.10 has a broken version of select.
   ##  We used to use -lc -lcurses, but this may be cleaner.
-  hpux*|netbsd) LIBS_TERMCAP="-ltermcap" ;;
+  hpux*) LIBS_TERMCAP="-ltermcap" ;;
 
   openbsd) LIBS_TERMCAP="-lncurses" ;;

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 of 2010-05-14 on rplaca.sm.sony.co.jp
configured using `configure  'x86_64--netbsd' '--with-x=no' 'build_alias=x86_64--netbsd' 'host_alias=x86_64--netbsd' 'target_alias=x86_64--netbsd''

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