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.)