Mercurial > emacs
changeset 45339:b5b8d69d0a4e
Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 18 May 2002 11:10:35 +0000 |
| parents | fa3c3e294a41 |
| children | a0cc96a3bf71 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Sat May 18 08:05:54 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Sat May 18 11:10:35 2002 +0000 @@ -1694,6 +1694,17 @@ The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2. +* Emacs does not start complaining that it cannot open termcap database file. + +If your system usses 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. + * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun. Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of