RE: Can't find -lncurses
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Davey
To: debian-mips
Sent: 8/13/02 6:16 PM
Subject: 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?
>
Did you make sure to run ldconfig after editing the file?
Does cc -lnurses complain about ncurses not being found? or main?
Jess
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