GNU bug report logs - #9736
Configure error for emacs-24.0.90 with AIX 5.3

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Message #44 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe <at> math.utah.edu>
Cc: 28893 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#28893: emacs-26.0.90 minor build issue on OpenIndiana
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 08:08:23 -0400

tags 9736 fixed
close 9736 26.1
quit

"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe <at> math.utah.edu> writes:

> Paul Eggert proposes a small patch to the emacs-26.0.90 configure
> script to deal with the build problem that I reported for OpenIndiana.
>
> I've just done a fresh build on that system, and Paul's patch solves
> the problem:

Okay, closing.

> I suggest, however, that configure.ac acquire some explanatory
> comments to document why -lcurses should be searched before -ltermcap
> on OpenIndiana.

A later commit [1: 19667f44ef], adds a mention of OpenIndiana, and the
existing reference to Bug#9736 explains the reasoning for AIX (AFAICT,
the library situation is the same on both these OSes).

[1: 19667f44ef]: 2017-10-24 11:46:53 -0700
  * configure.ac: Tweak libcurses diagnostic.
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=19667f44efabda7d4e53e706c6cd8140145b2a1a

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