GNU bug report logs - #9741
24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>

Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:55:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.0.90

Fixed in version 24.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: 9741 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Subject: bug#9741: 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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