Clarify "can't open termcap database" item.

diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 492bb05dfccc77b9a7542f760bb52c414b8a0f62..8d2ade666fb319902f5675b2f998ac04cb15b64b 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -1755,14 +1755,17 @@ The fix is to install a newer version of ncurses, such as version 4.2.
 
 * Emacs does not start complaining that it cannot open termcap database file.
 
-If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern systems
-do), this could happen if you have an old version of ncurses
-installed, or if the newer version is not visible to the Emacs
-configure script (i.e. it cannot be found along the usual path the
-linker looks for libraries).
-
-The solution is to install a newer version of ncurses, and make sure
-the linker can find it.
+If your system uses Terminfo rather than termcap (most modern
+systems do), this could happen if the proper version of
+ncurses is not visible to the Emacs configure script (i.e. it
+cannot be found along the usual path the linker looks for
+libraries). It can happen because your version of ncurses is
+obsolete, or is available only in form of binaries.
+
+The solution is to install an up-to-date version of ncurses in
+the developer's form (header files, static libraries and
+symbolic links); in some GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Debian)
+it constitutes a separate package.
 
 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.