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bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#14040: 24.3.50; building on OpenSuSE 12.3 |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:20:13 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
john ffitch wrote:
> I have failed to build emacs from bzr on a SuSE 12.3 machine. Asking
> in the SuSE forum I was pointed at
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?expand=1&file=emacs-24.1-tinfo.dif&package=emacs&project=editors
> which patches the configure script with a new library for tputs
> (tinfo). Clwearly I could apply the patch but it would go away. Can
> it be applied in the master sources?
This doesn't make sense, because configure.ac already checks for tinfo,
since 2012-05-01. Perhaps you could give the actual details of the build
failure.
(The fact that configure.ac hardcodes LIBS_TERMCAP on many platforms,
ignoring the test it has just done, has always seem dodgy to me.)