From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 06:32:33 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8B6106564A for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:32:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from leila.iecc.com (leila6.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:4c:6569:6c61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE6C88FC17 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 53975 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2011 06:32:32 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:vbr-info:user-agent:cleverness; s=d2d4.4ea50680.k1110; bh=RdU2RGzHza8HtHKBgGsBYr6oTqu/nHLm455feHcqvXg=; b=IUnL3QvrXrm3u5mT3mG5mKoCNTtQv3/oReo4/Ycq596KocsIvDmbhEeX5TEb3IH8N4iDTL2gfyUTs2/A1nTwR6cLFCtMlP/OJPCyoEe/BQyH1XXX9/6Gyg9+q9j0ANutdOzDzWmRAf1qk/WtGY5ajDRdi43nsK4xGpa3D4ViQbQ= VBR-Info: md=iecc.com; mc=all; mv=dwl.spamhaus.org Received: (ofmipd 127.0.0.1) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 24 Oct 2011 06:32:09 -0000 Date: 24 Oct 2011 08:32:30 +0200 Message-ID: From: "John R. Levine" To: "Thomas Dickey" In-Reply-To: <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net> <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) Cleverness: None detected MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating emacs fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:32:33 -0000 >> 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. If you look at the build log I posted, it's failing because it's trying to link in the system termcap library and failing because ncurses doesn't provide it. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly