Re: No Termcap

[Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>]

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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Carl Flippin wrote:

> I am attempting to comile Lynx 2.7.1. When it attempts to link in the 
> termcap library with '-ltermcap', The compile dies and says that 
> termcap isn't there. I looked in /lib and saw that a file beginning 
> with libtermcap is there. Why can't the compiler find the file, or is 
> it the wrong file?

Debian uses ncurses instead of termcap, which is considered "obsolete".
Just replacing -ltermcap by -lncurses will do the trick.

However, there is a Debian lynx package version 2.7.1-1 (which does
not use termcap nor ncurses but slang).

Why don't you simply use the Debian package?

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Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>


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