On Monday, August 19, 2002, at 04:18 AM, Jeremy Higgs wrote:
Hi everyone!
I've compiled the emacs21 package properly, but now when I go to run emacs21 without X-Windows (emacs21 -nw), I get this:
[tigger:~] jem% emacs21 -nw
emacs: Terminal type "vt100" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
It lacks the ability to position the cursor.
If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell:
`setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary
to do `unset TERMCAP' (C-shell: `unsetenv TERMCAP') as well.
So do what it says.
You can get a fixed TERMCAP at:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020408225741777
The new emacs is linked against ncurses explicitly to fix jaguar compilation. This apparently causes it to fail unless you have fixed your TERMCAP. Apple supplies broken TERMCAPs on both 10.1 and 10.2. Suggestions have been made that fink could fix the TERMCAP, anyone know what the best way of doing this would be? We wouldn't want to write over a custom user-installed termcap with ours, but we do want to fix apple's broken termcap.
-Ben
