RE: Can't find -lncurses
>===== Original Message From Scott Carmichael <sgijobe@jobeus.net> =====
>After finally getting my Indy running what I believe to be the latest
>version of Debian, I set up a few things using tasksel and then tried to
>compile pine/pico. It seemed to work, but then at the last linking stage,
>ld complained it could not find -lncurses. I checked around and sure
>enough, the lib was in /lib, but it just wasn't being found. I decided to
>just edit the makefile and link in the .so file instead, which worked, and
>now pine works fine... However, I'd really like to know why that didn't
>work. I checked /etc/ld.so.conf and it didn't have /lib, but even adding
>it there didn't seem to help!
>
>So yeah, any thoughts?
>
Have you installed the ncurses-dev package not just the ncurses libs ?
I fell for this one a while ago, felt a bit silly as i answered my own post on
a newsgroup about it. Still, live and learn :)
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