Emacs cannot open termcap database resolution

[Rodolfo Aramayo]

FYI,

We were finally able to pin down the reason why emacs could not open
the termcap database in some of my computers but not in others

To make a long story short: emacs was being compiled against
'libintl.dylib' library that was built for i386 which is not the
architecture being linked (x86_64).
This library was part of an INACTIVE Fink installation.

This is very confusing to me because:
Fink was NOT active. I installed it because I was trying to install a
weird program. But after that I removed Fink from my PATHS.
I had No Fink in '/etc/profile'
No Fink in .bashrc.
No Fink in .bash_profile.
Regardless, somehow during emacs compilation the wrong ncurses library
was being found and emacs was linking to the incorrect compilation of
libncurses.

The solution: I deleted the '/sw' directory and proceeded to
re-install emacs via Ports and YES this time it works!!

Hope this helps

--R