From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 23 23:40:05 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 DBBDF106566C for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:40:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dickey@saltmine.radix.net) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (saltmine.radix.net [207.192.128.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2BC8FC14 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:40:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from saltmine.radix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id p9NNe4j5012925; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:40:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dickey@localhost) by saltmine.radix.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id p9NNe4QC012924; Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:40:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:40:04 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: John Levine Message-ID: <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net> <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Cc: dickey@radix.net, 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: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:40:05 -0000 --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:23:36PM -0000, John Levine wrote: > >ncurses is already in the base system - with different options. ... >=20 > >> Did you try installing the ncurses port and then rebuilding emacs? For= =20 > >> some reason the library in the ncurses port doesn't define the termcap= =20 > >> 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. >=20 > 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. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFOpKW4tIqByHxlDocRAv+XAJ9nrPc+GOUeTZlGFo8TCgSw+gsG5gCgp/m4 RyZmI0uXVngGhWzHp1rYdVw= =XOGj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--