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Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 18 May 2002 11:10:35 +0000
parents 67007e5c6b03
children b0790d543280
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1692 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support 1692 incompatible with Terminfo; as a result, the Emacs Terminfo support
1693 does not work with this version of ncurses. 1693 does not work with this version of ncurses.
1694 1694
1695 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2. 1695 The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.
1696 1696
1697 * Emacs does not start complaining that it cannot open termcap database file.
1698
1699 If your system usses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern systems
1700 do), this could happen if you have an old version of ncurses
1701 installed, or if the newer version is not visible to the Emacs
1702 configure script (i.e. it cannot be found along the usual path the
1703 linker looks for libraries).
1704
1705 The solution is to install a newer version of ncurses, and make sure
1706 the linker can find it.
1707
1697 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun. 1708 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.
1698 1709
1699 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of 1710 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of
1700 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such 1711 editfns.c. The workaround is to compile with some other compiler such
1701 as GCC. 1712 as GCC.