Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:40:04 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: dickey@radix.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating emacs fails Message-ID: <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> References: <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net> <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan>
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--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:23:36PM -0000, John Levine wrote: > >ncurses is already in the base system - with different options. ... >=20 > >> Did you try installing the ncurses port and then rebuilding emacs? For= =20 > >> some reason the library in the ncurses port doesn't define the termcap= =20 > >> 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. >=20 > 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? maybe/maybe not. It depends on what emacs needs - whether it only works with either its own termcap module or a conventional termcap library in the system. Probably its installation documentation tells what's needed. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFOpKW4tIqByHxlDocRAv+XAJ9nrPc+GOUeTZlGFo8TCgSw+gsG5gCgp/m4 RyZmI0uXVngGhWzHp1rYdVw= =XOGj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--
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