Updating emacs fails

[Thomas Dickey]

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.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
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