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When installing emacs completely from source to a custom prefix (no root), even after the compilation works, it says emacs: Cannot open terminfo database file . Adding the terminfo to different parts of the PATH/other environment variables doesn't work

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Using strace (strace emacs), it only looks at stats ~/.terminfo and ~/share/terminfo. Copying a terminfo database (it was installed at a different location on my computer) to ~/.terminfo works.

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