Solved: Emacs 21.2 and termcap problem

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Mon, 13 May 2002  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote:

> On 13 May 2002 jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl wrote:
> 
> > I have just compiled Emacs 21.2 on my home Woody Debian computer. I
> > have done everything "as usual" (I started to compile Emacs with some
> > pretest version); there was no substantial changes of my system in the
> > meantime. However, 21.2 does not start reporting
> > 
> >       Cannot open termcap database file  
> > 

[...]

> I'd suggest to make sure you have the latest version of ncurses installed 
> and visible to the Emacs build at configure time.  Old versions of 
> ncurses sometimes dupe the configure script into thinking your system 
> doesn't support terminfo.

The advice worked, thanks.


Janusz

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Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
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