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From: Steve Carney <carney@gvc.dec.com>
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Subject: RE: XEmacs 20.3-b1 build mostly successful on Digital UNIX V4.0B
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mrb@Eng.Sun.COM (Martin Buchholz) writes,
in <199705191144.EAA12098@xemacs.eng.sun.com>:

>LIBS_TERMCAP does not seem to be defined by your s&m files.  

The problem turns out to be that configure sets libs_termcap to " " (via
sed at line 2018) if LIBS_TERMCAP is not defined.  Consequently, on
configure line 8366 the "test -n" always succeeds, which prevents adding
-lcurses or -ltermcap to LIBS.  Either, sed should set libs_termcap to
"", or the "test -n" should become whitespace aware.

In configure lines 8361-8363, -lcurses is checked before -ltermcap.  In
lines 8367-8368, however, -ltermcap is checked before -lcurses.  Is
there a reason for switching the library search order?  If -lcurses is
checked first in the else clause, then I won't have to define
LIBS_TERMCAP in a system configuration file.

        Steve

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