From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 11:10:35 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses. X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~15018 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1dd8b9790ce6c667e0676eed6fab7981609a288d;p=emacs.git Document failure to start due to old version of ncurses. --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 9ddc899fa97..13c0e2f4a1a 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -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