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Re: Cannot open termcap database
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Cannot open termcap database |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:47:46 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > I tried to compile emacs for console, and I got the error
>> > Cannot open termcap database
>> > I solved the problem by installing ncurses-dev.
>> > One can introduce a check in ./configure.ac for the existence of terminfo
>> > data
>> > base when compiling for console and giving a suggestive error message?
>> I get bitten by this each time I compile and install Emacs on a new
>> Ubuntu GNU/Linux machine. Each time I have to surf around to
>> understand what to do about it. If it is possible for "us" to fix it
>> it would be nice.
> configure could try to detect either the termcap or terminfo headers and
> if none are present should error out. All the systems we support
> nowadays that use ttys have either termcap or terminfo, so we don't lose
> anything.
I think the problem isn't so much the C headers, as the database.
For some reason, some distribution seem to have a tendency to install
some packages that provide the termcap header files without having the
termcap database installed, so compilation works fine, but it fails at
run-time.
Stefan
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Mathias Dahl, 2009/12/03
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/12/03
- Re: Cannot open termcap database,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/12/03
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Stefan Monnier, 2009/12/04
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Miles Bader, 2009/12/04
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/12/04
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/12/04
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/12/04
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/12/04
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Stefan Monnier, 2009/12/04
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/12/05
- Re: Cannot open termcap database, Andreas Schwab, 2009/12/05