From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 22 16:51:52 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 2D9FF106566B for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:51:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=0269ed33c5=johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [64.57.183.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30438FC08 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:51:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18952 invoked from network); 22 Oct 2011 16:25:10 -0000 Received: from leila.iecc.com (64.57.183.34) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 22 Oct 2011 16:25:10 -0000 Date: 22 Oct 2011 16:24:48 -0000 Message-ID: <20111022162448.5020.qmail@joyce.lan> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: 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: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:51:52 -0000 For at least several weeks, attempts to rebuild emacs from ports fails with an odd linker error saying it can't find symbols in the termcap library. I poked around a little, the makefile does include the appropriate library and adding it again at the end of the line in the makefile didn't help. This is on 8.2, building it with no nonstandard options I'm aware of. 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