Re: editor poll

[Jonas Trollvik <jontro@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot, this fixed it! Finally I am able to run emacs again :)
-Jonas

On 30 Oct 2005 08:58:44 -0600, Timothy H. Legant <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonas Trollvik <jontro@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Thanks a lot, this made emacs compile and install. However emacs wont
> > start and gives me the following error message:
> >
> > emacs: Cannot open termcap database file
> >
> > is there a command I need to do to build the termcap or why is it doing this?
>
> <grin>  Yeah.  The `make update' you ran after installing world
> screwed your /etc/termcap symlink.  This is now fixed in HEAD (I think
> by corecode... you can find a reference in the `commits' newsgroup, if
> you care).
>
> In any case, if you check /etc/termcap, you'll see it points to
> /misc/termcap, which is wrong.  Remove the link and recreate it
> pointing to /usr/share/misc/termcap.
>
>
> Tim
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> Tim Legant
> tim@xxxxxxxxxxx
>