Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses.

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@@ -1694,6 +1694,17 @@ does not work with this version of ncurses.
 
 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 usses 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.
+
 * Strange results from format %d in a few cases, on a Sun.
 
 Sun compiler version SC3.0 has been found to miscompile part of