From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 23 23:24:00 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 6AF651065673 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:24:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=0270e1faa1=johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [64.57.183.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0503B8FC08 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 48932 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2011 23:23:59 -0000 Received: from leila.iecc.com (64.57.183.34) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 23 Oct 2011 23:23:59 -0000 Date: 23 Oct 2011 23:23:36 -0000 Message-ID: <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net> Organization: X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: dickey@radix.net 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: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:24:00 -0000 >ncurses is already in the base system - with different options. ... >> Did you try installing the ncurses port and then rebuilding emacs? For >> some reason the library in the ncurses port doesn't define the termcap >> 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. 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? R's, John