bug#7844: when ncurses not available, curses assumed

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Recently, when building the Emacs-23 branch on my Cygwin machine, I'd
>> forgotten to install curses-devel. The configure script should have
>> failed, but instead, compilation proceeded until linking, when the job
>> failed with 
>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>> cannot find -lcurses
>>
>> The configure script ought to look for ncurses, then curses, and fail
>> if neither is found (or at least unset TERMINFO)
>
> This bug was reported 8 years ago but unfortunately never got a reply
> at the time.  Is this still an issue on modern versions of Emacs?

More information was requested, but none was given within 5 weeks, so
I'll go ahead and assume this has been fixed in the years since this
was reported.

If this is still an issue with a modern version of Emacs, please
reopen the bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas