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RE: Can't find -lncurses



Thanks! That worked like a charm. Oops! :)

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Adrian Davey wrote:

> >===== 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 :)
>
> --
> ade.
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