Date: 24 Oct 2011 13:35:31 +0200 From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@radix.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating emacs fails Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110241332560.6876@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <20111024094028.GA27596@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net> <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110240831490.5623@joyce.lan> <20111024094028.GA27596@saltmine.radix.net>
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> There's enough in the emacs sources to make it pretty clear that a > failure to have emacs find the termcap functions would be a problem > in the emacs port - emacs prefers -lncurses to -ltermcap unless it's > being overridden. Well, OK. Now we know that on FreeBSD that doesn't work, since there's an optional ncurses library that doesn't define the termcap functions. Do we fix it, or wave our hands and claim it's someone else's fault? 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
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