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| author | Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> | 2002-10-25 05:58:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> | 2002-10-25 05:58:04 +0000 |
| commit | 10a763e5513a43b4ee5ed80c25327dc546e02f69 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ab65c341c4d2418d9636cbc94ce0a1da2b17a63 | |
| parent | f0f62f71d05080f12900de087d8b0b2f249d2a4b (diff) | |
Clarify "can't open termcap database" item.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 492bb05dfc..8d2ade666f 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1755,14 +1755,17 @@ The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2. * Emacs does not start complaining that it cannot open termcap database file. -If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern systems -do), this could happen if you have an old version of ncurses -installed, or if the newer version is not visible to the Emacs -configure script (i.e. it cannot be found along the usual path the -linker looks for libraries). - -The solution is to install a newer version of ncurses, and make sure -the linker can find it. +If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern +systems do), this could happen if the proper version of +ncurses is not visible to the Emacs configure script (i.e. it +cannot be found along the usual path the linker looks for +libraries). It can happen because your version of ncurses is +obsolete, or is available only in form of binaries. + +The solution is to install an up-to-date version of ncurses in +the developer's form (header files, static libraries and +symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) +it constitutes a separate package. * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun. |