Mercurial > emacs
changeset 47995:69005955972e
Clarify "can't open termcap database" item.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:58:04 +0000 |
| parents | f0fe517ae1cf |
| children | 276c5262e359 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Oct 24 22:13:59 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Oct 25 05:58:04 2002 +0000 @@ -1755,14 +1755,17 @@ * Emacs does not start complaining that it cannot open termcap database file. -If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern systems -do), this could happen if you have an old version of ncurses -installed, or if the newer version is not visible to the Emacs -configure script (i.e. it cannot be found along the usual path the -linker looks for libraries). - -The solution is to install a newer version of ncurses, and make sure -the linker can find it. +If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern +systems do), this could happen if the proper version of +ncurses is not visible to the Emacs configure script (i.e. it +cannot be found along the usual path the linker looks for +libraries). It can happen because your version of ncurses is +obsolete, or is available only in form of binaries. + +The solution is to install an up-to-date version of ncurses in +the developer's form (header files, static libraries and +symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) +it constitutes a separate package. * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.