On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 06:03:10PM +0200, John R. Levine wrote: > >>>On 23/10/2011 09:03, John R. Levine wrote: > >>>>> checking for tparm in -lncurses... no > >>>>> > >>>>>but that's not correct. libncurses should certainly contain that > >>>>>symbol. I get a 'yes' there on my stable/8 machine. As -lncurses is > >>>>>part of your LDFLAGS ... hmmm... do you have libncurses on your system > >>>>>anywhere other than in /lib ? > >>>> > >>>>I have the ncurses-5.9 package installed from ports. Several gnome > >>>>programs depend on it: > >>>> > >>>>pkg_delete: package 'ncurses-5.9' is required by these other packages > >>>>and may not be deinstalled: > >>>>aalib-1.4.r5_6 > >>>>gnome-games-2.32.1_2 > >>>>guile-1.8.8 > >>>>libcdio-0.82_2 > >>>>libxine-1.1.19_7 > >>> > >>>Interesting. Can you try moving /usr/local/lib/libncurses.* and > >>>/usr/local/include/ncurses.h aside temporarily and then rebuild emacs? > >>>If that works, then looks like you've found a bug in the editors/emacs > >>>port, which should be reported to the port's maintainer. > >> > >>Yup, that fixed it. I'll file a bug report. I tried rebuilding some > >>of the packages that allegedly depend on the ncurses port, and they > >>all seemed to work OK, so the right solution may be to deprecate the > >>ncurses port or fold it into the mainline system.
ncurses is already in the base system - with different options.
See
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tctest.html
for example.
> >The way it's supposed to work is that emacs will depend on (and link to)
> >ncurses if it's installed when the emacs port is built, and to the base
> >system curses if not. I just did a quick test, and this was just what
> >did happen. So at least part of the problem is local to your system...
>
> 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.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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