From 866e4b06e3664d140c166a49ac0588a6daea098d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 11:12:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document failure to start due to old versions of ncurses. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 4944955775a..f62ac333b5d 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -1932,6 +1932,17 @@ 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 -- 2.39.2