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


From: Sven Joachim
Subject: bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:54:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux)

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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