[debbugs-tracker] bug#9741: closed (24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses)

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regarding 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
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> 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
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> Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:54:10 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux)
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> Package: emacs
> Severity: wishlist
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> It is possible to build a separate terminfo library from the ncurses
> sources by configuring ncurses with the "--with-termlib" option.  This
> library is usually called libtinfo, and several GNU/Linux distributions
> are using this option; Fedora since Version 7 (May 2007), Ubuntu since
> version 11.10 (to be released tomorrow) and Debian in testing/unstable
> for two weeks.
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> If ncurses is built this way, Emacs only needs symbols from libtinfo,
> but with the current `configure' script links against libncurses
> unnecessarily.  It would be nice if `configure' were looking for
> libtinfo and prefer to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.
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> Re: bug#9741: 24.0.90; configure: prefer -ltinfo over -lncurses
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> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:08:27 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 24.2
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> Sven Joachim wrote:
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> > It would be nice if `configure' were looking for libtinfo and prefer
> > to use -ltinfo over -lncurses.
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> Implemented (for gnu* systems).
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