From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 11:35:34 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 6C2C2106566C for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:35:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from leila.iecc.com (leila6.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:4c:6569:6c61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEA98FC14 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:35:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23738 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2011 11:35:33 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:vbr-info:user-agent:cleverness; s=5cb9.4ea54d85.k1110; bh=fYPfRUI/06dOEGXai3g9+NY1jv73pvP2Rr9rU95eM/Q=; b=cAWcwE3/aqwCj93ltEQGWYUIr/xH1is7/YZFydmvybKtGc9yUw0EphhJ3N+CDaie+9vOF/3ywtRfttWVV5vzPwBFXvXR3+QM9alVMOB7QFRuzBHJgrtcG2QCgPrBIP+0WP8TSu0qgmk7t5N21Cz6CDLdwUXG66fSISNtNNpMl20= VBR-Info: md=iecc.com; mc=all; mv=dwl.spamhaus.org Received: (ofmipd 127.0.0.1) with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 24 Oct 2011 11:35:11 -0000 Date: 24 Oct 2011 13:35:31 +0200 Message-ID: From: "John R. Levine" To: "Thomas Dickey" In-Reply-To: <20111024094028.GA27596@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net> <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net> <20111024094028.GA27596@saltmine.radix.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) Cleverness: None detected MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: 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: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:35:34 -0000 > 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