bug#7844: when ncurses not available, curses assumed

[Stefan Kangas]

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?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas