Date: 24 Oct 2011 08:32:30 +0200 From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@radix.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating emacs fails Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110240831490.5623@joyce.lan> In-Reply-To: <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net> References: <20111023225808.GA6341@saltmine.radix.net> <20111023232336.2351.qmail@joyce.lan> <20111023234004.GA12404@saltmine.radix.net>
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>> 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. If you look at the build log I posted, it's failing because it's trying to link in the system termcap library and failing because ncurses doesn't provide it. 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
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