Re: Crash in tparam.c on OpenBSD

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 00:54:31 +0200
> From: Casper Gripenberg <casper.gripenberg@kotiportti.fi>
> 
> (gdb) up
> #4  0x123709 in tparam (string=0x49b105 "\e[3%p1%dm", outstring=0x0, len=0, 
>     arg0=6, arg1=2496000, arg2=1, arg3=8) at tparam.c:105
> (gdb) up
> #5  0x4b3a9 in turn_on_face (f=0x261600, face_id=11) at term.c:2107
> (gdb) 
> 
> Which looks like this:
> 
>       if (fg >= 0 && TS_set_foreground)
>       {
> >       p = tparam (TS_set_foreground, NULL, 0, (int) fg);
>         OUTPUT (p);
>         xfree (p);
>       }
> 
> Where TS_set_foreground is the "\e[3%p1%dm" string.
> 
> I have no idea what all this means

It means that your Emacs was compiled for termcap, but the TERM entry
it gets fed is for terminfo, which is a newer method of specifying
terminal capabilities.  Emacs as compiled on your machine cannot
handle terminfo entries, so it barfs.

There should be an entry in the PROBLEMS file named "Emacs aborts
inside the function `tparam1'" which tells you more, including
suggested ways to solve this problem.