>Number:         20670
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       editors/xemacs fails to configure on Linux
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 12 02:41:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Joachim Koenig-Baltes
>Release:        SuSE Linux 8.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386)
VERSION = 8.1
>Description:
editors/xemacs fails to configure on Suse Linux 8.1 Professional in a
bootstrap-pkgsrc environment because it cannot find libtermcap. 
>How-To-Repeat:
% cd /usr/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs; bmake
see it fail in configure.
excerpt from config.log:

-----
configure:15152: gcc -o conftest   -O2 -Dunix -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/X11R6/in
clude   -I/usr/pkg/include -I/usr/X11R6/include  -I/user/unix/work/NetBSD-curren
t/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work.i386/.buildlink/include -I/user/unix/work/NetBSD-cu
rrent/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work.i386     -I/usr/X11/include    -Wl,-R/usr/X11R6
/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib -L/usr/pkg/lib -L/user/unix/work/NetBSD
-current/pkgsrc/editors/xemacs/work.i386/.buildlink/lib   -L/usr/X11/lib  -Xlink
er -rpath -Xlinker /usr/pkg/lib conftest.c    -ltiff -lpng -ljpeg -lz -lXpm -lXm
u -lXt -lXext -lX11   -lSM -lICE -ltermcap -lcurses -lm    -lutil  1>&5
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-suse-linux/3.2/../../../../i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot 
find -ltermcap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure: failed program was:
#line 15148 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
int main(int c,char *v[]){return 0;}
-----

There is no /usr/lib/libtermcap.so on modern Linux distributions, there is only
libtermcap.so.2 for binary compatibility with older versions, but unsuitable 
for compiling. Googling reveils that Linux is distributed with ncurses.
So the fix is clear: 

>Fix:

disable disabling of ncurses in the configure arguments for Linux:

--- Makefile.orig       2003-02-27 09:10:22.000000000 +0100
+++ Makefile    2003-03-12 11:34:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -101,7 +101,9 @@
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --prefix=${PREFIX}
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --with-clash-detection
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --with-mule=yes
+.if ${OPSYS} != "Linux"
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --with-ncurses=no
+.endif
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --with-msw=no
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       ${WITH_DIALOGS} ${WITH_LDAP} ${WITH_XFACE} ${WITH_CANNA}
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --infopath="${INFOPATH}"
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