8:20 p.m.
Hello,
I had issues with the xemacs package that I apt-get installed under
ubuntu 11.10 (which I reported to the ubuntu maintainers but I don't
think anyone took ownership). So, I downloaded xemacs-beta via
mercurial and configured. Had issues in src/termcap.c which I worked
around (tried couple different ways)...
diff -r 611a6845ebee src/termcap.c
--- a/src/termcap.c Mon Feb 13 08:00:23 2012 -0500
+++ b/src/termcap.c Sat Mar 17 15:59:56 2012 -0400
＠＠ -27,6 +27,11 ＠＠
#include "device-impl.h" /* For DEVICE_BAUD_RATE */
#include "sysfile.h"
#include "process.h"
+
+/* #ifdef HAVE_TERMIOS */
+/* #include <termios.h> */
+/* #endif */
+
#else /* not emacs */
#include <stdlib.h>
＠＠ -232,11 +237,11 ＠＠
/* Outputting a string with padding. */
-#ifdef LINUX
-speed_t ospeed;
-#else
+/* #ifdef LINUX */
+/* speed_t ospeed; */
+/* #else */
short ospeed;
-#endif
+/* #endif */
/* If `ospeed' is 0, we use `tputs_baud_rate' as the actual baud rate. */
int tputs_baud_rate;
char PC;
...but either way (#include <termios.h> or s/speed_t/sort/) I get:
IO Error: Terminal type undefined (or can't access database?), "xterm"
info/man termcap says "...termcap...is an obsolete facility...new
[programs] should use the terminfo(5) database and associated
libraries".
I tried configure --without-termcap and --with-terminfo to no avail.
So, do I need a backport of /etc/termicap to get xemacs to run on this
platform?
Thanks,
Bruce
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9:20 p.m.
>>>> Bruce Visscher <bruce.visscher(a)gmail.com>
writes:
I tried configure --without-termcap and --with-terminfo to no avail.
So, do I need a backport of /etc/termicap to get xemacs to run on
this platform?
As you have noticed termcap support is broken. I suggest that you for
tty support install the development package for ncurses. (I don't know
what it is called but there ought to be one in Ubuntu) XEmacs
configure will detect and use that instead of termcap.
Yours
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9:43 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:20:12 +0100
Mats Lidell <matsl(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
>>>>> Bruce Visscher <bruce.visscher(a)gmail.com>
writes:
> I tried configure --without-termcap and --with-terminfo to no avail.
> So, do I need a backport of /etc/termicap to get xemacs to run on
> this platform?
As you have noticed termcap support is broken. I suggest that you for
tty support install the development package for ncurses. (I don't know
what it is called but there ought to be one in Ubuntu) XEmacs
configure will detect and use that instead of termcap.
IIRC Matts is correct, you must have ncurses install on Ubuntu to get
XEmacs working. I don't remember *which* exact packages and my notes
are at work. But here is what I have installed:
% dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses
libncurses5 install
libncurses5-dbg install
libncurses5-dev install
libncursesw5 install
ncurses-base install
ncurses-bin install
Cheers,
Sean
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11:02 p.m.
Sean and Mars,
Thanks to you both for your prompt reply.
>
> As you have noticed termcap support is broken. I suggest that you for
> tty support install the development package for ncurses. (I don't know
> what it is called but there ought to be one in Ubuntu) XEmacs
> configure will detect and use that instead of termcap.
IIRC Matts is correct, you must have ncurses install on Ubuntu to get
XEmacs working. I don't remember *which* exact packages and my notes
are at work. But here is what I have installed:
% dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses
libncurses5 install
libncurses5-dbg install
libncurses5-dev install
libncursesw5 install
ncurses-base install
ncurses-bin install
Cheers,
Sean
% dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses
lib64ncurses5 deinstall
libncurses5 install
libncursesw5 install
ncurses-base install
ncurses-bin install
ncurses-term install
(I am on AMD64 hardware but I am running 32bit linux. I think the
lib64ncurses5 was the result of trying to install what I may have
already had.)
If I ./configure --with-ncurses, I get:
*** PANIC *** The C compiler can no longer build working executables.
*** PANIC *** Please examine the tail of config.log for runtime errors.
*** PANIC *** The most likely reason for this problem is that configure
*** PANIC *** links with shared libraries, but those libraries cannot be
*** PANIC *** found at run time.
*** PANIC ***
*** PANIC *** On a Linux system, edit /etc/ld.so.conf and re-run ldconfig.
*** PANIC *** On other systems, try telling configure where to find the
*** PANIC *** shared libraries using the --with-site-runtime-libraries option
*** PANIC ***
*** PANIC *** Another way to shoot yourself in the foot is to specify
*** PANIC *** --with-FEATURE when FEATURE is not actually installed
*** PANIC *** on your system. Don't do that.
I think gcc -lncurses is causing this.
./configure --with-ncurses5 warns of unrecognized option.
./configure ; sudo make clean ; sudo make install gets me back to
IO Error: Terminal type undefined (or can't access database?), "xterm"
Reinstalled lib64ncurses5 and got same results.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Bruce
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11:15 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Bruce Visscher
<bruce.visscher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> IIRC Matts is correct, you must have ncurses install on Ubuntu to
get
> XEmacs working. I don't remember *which* exact packages and my notes
> are at work. But here is what I have installed:
>
> % dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses
> libncurses5 install
> libncurses5-dbg install
> libncurses5-dev install
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the one you need.
> libncursesw5 install
> ncurses-base install
> ncurses-bin install
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
% dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses
lib64ncurses5 deinstall
libncurses5 install
libncursesw5 install
ncurses-base install
ncurses-bin install
ncurses-term install
Notice it isn't on your list. Regards,
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You need the -dev packages for building. Like libncurses5-dev.
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10:13 a.m.
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:20:34 -0400, Bruce Visscher
> <bruce.visscher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I had issues with the xemacs package that I apt-get
installed under ubuntu 11.10 (which I reported to the
ubuntu maintainers but I don't think anyone took
ownership). So, I downloaded xemacs-beta via mercurial
and configured. Had issues in src/termcap.c which I
worked around (tried couple different ways)...
I remember having similar problems some time ago. Did you
try:
apt-get build-dep xemacs21
That usually install all relevant pkg.
Uwe Brauer
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12:43 a.m.
Uwe,
I remember having similar problems some time ago. Did you
try:
apt-get build-dep xemacs21
That usually install all relevant pkg.
Uwe Brauer
Thanks for the tip! I will try to remember that next time.
Unfortunately, this did not fix the font that won't parse, though,
Bruce
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2:06 a.m.
To fix the font parsing issue, you probably need to explicitly configure
for Xft. Before you ask, Xft is not the default because, frankly speaking,
the implementation in XEmacs sucks. It's only fit for use by people who
don't need to ask the kinds of questions you're asking. That said, *they*
mostly think it's great, so if you're willing to continue asking questions
until you've got things working as you like (you're always welcome to ask
here), add "--with-xft=all" to your configure command and rebuild.
You will need at least the fontconfig and Xft development packages from
your distro. I don't know if those are provided by the command Uwe
suggested, I don't use Ubuntu (or Debian workstation configurations, for
that matter).
I can't guarantee that using Xft will fix the font parsing issue, as I
believe that GNOME uses a similar syntax to Xft but Xft can't parse it,
and we have no code in place to transform it to Xft's preferred format.
But we should be able to tell you how to transform it by hand.
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