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Date:      24 Oct 2011 08:32:30 +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.2.00.1110240831490.5623@joyce.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net>
References:  <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net> <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net>

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>> 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



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