Re: Question about build emacs 22

[Christian Plate]

"wensa" <zhengwt@gmail.com> writes:
> When I type emacs, it says
>   emacs: Cannot open termcap database file

This problem arises when Emacs is build without ncurses-support.

You should install the ncurses development libraries and then start your
build process. 

On Debian I do this to get ncurses:
chris:~# apt-get install libncurses5-dev

This should fix your problems if you want to run Emacs on a Text
Terminal. If you want to compile GNU Emacs with X-support you have some
choices:

Use configure
  --with-x-toolkit=KIT    use an X toolkit
                              (KIT = yes/lucid/athena/motif/gtk/no)

You probably want GTK. (You will need the corresponding dev-libraries of
course!)

Hope this helps,
  Christian