Date: 23 Oct 2011 23:23:36 -0000 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: dickey@radix.net Subject: Re: Updating emacs fails Message-ID: <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net>
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>ncurses is already in the base system - with different options. ... >> Did you try installing the ncurses port and then rebuilding emacs? For >> some reason the library in the ncurses port doesn't define the termcap >> routines, leading to the problem. > >Whether or not the termcap routines are provided isn't configurable. >However, emacs could be confused since they're implemented on top >of terminfo. It sounds to me like the right thing to do is to fix emacs' configuration so it always uses the base system ncurses whether or not the package version is there. Right? R's, John
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