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24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Subject: bug#9741: closed (Re: bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer
 -ltinfo over -lncurses)
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 01:10:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses

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

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 9741-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:08:27 -0400

Version: 24.2

Sven Joachim wrote:

> It would be nice if `configure' were looking for libtinfo and prefer
> to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.

Implemented (for gnu* systems).

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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:54:10 +0200

Package: emacs
Severity: wishlist

It is possible to build a separate terminfo library from the ncurses
sources by configuring ncurses with the "--with-termlib" option.  This
library is usually called libtinfo, and several GNU/Linux distributions
are using this option; Fedora since Version 7 (May 2007), Ubuntu since
version 11.10 (to be released tomorrow) and Debian in testing/unstable
for two weeks.

If ncurses is built this way, Emacs only needs symbols from libtinfo,
but with the current `configure' script links against libncurses
unnecessarily.  It would be nice if `configure' were looking for
libtinfo and prefer to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.

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