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when ncurses not available, curses assumed

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From: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: when ncurses not available, curses assumed
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:05:16 -0800

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)

Message #8 received at 7844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7844: when ncurses not available, curses assumed
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:36:56 +0200

Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione <at> 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?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Message #13 received at 7844-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7844-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7844: when ncurses not available, curses assumed
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:43:52 +0100

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione <at> 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

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