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bug#7844: when ncurses not available, curses assumed
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Stefan Kangas |
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bug#7844: when ncurses not available, curses assumed |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:36:56 +0200 |
Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com> writes:
> Recently, when building the Emacs-23 branch on my Cygwin machine, I'd
> forgotten to install curses-devel. The configure script should have
> failed, but instead, compilation proceeded until linking, when the job
> failed with
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -lcurses
>
> The configure script ought to look for ncurses, then curses, and fail
> if neither is found (or at least unset TERMINFO)
This bug was reported 8 years ago but unfortunately never got a reply
at the time. Is this still an issue on modern versions of Emacs?
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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