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Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?


From: Chong Yidong
Subject: Re: Why Cannot open termcap databases file?
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:44:03 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Charles" <chp516@gmail.com> writes:

> After I compiled emacs with "make bootstrap", I tryied to start emacs,
> but I got
> the following message: "Cannot open termcap databases file". I think I
> have termcap
> correctly installed because I can successfully "man termcap".
> What should I do to solve this problem?
> Must I configure with option "--prefix=/usr"?

Install libncurses5-dev (or its equivalent) and compile again.


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