Re: libtermcap, tputs, and clisp

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk>]

Will Lowe <lowe@cis.udel.edu> writes:

> I'm trying to recompile the clisp package, which installs and
> compiles it's own gnu readline library.  The display routines are
> having problems locating functions such as "tputs", which the
> comments in the source code indicate should come from the locate
> termcap library.  I'm using the most current version of the
> ncurses/termcap libs in unstable .. is there a problem with them?

Don't use termcap, it's evil (and against policy).  If you have
ncurses3.4 and ncurses3.4-dev from hamm installed you should have no
problem linking with something that use tputs.
 
> Secondly, do we have a standard GNU readline library someplace that
> I could just link clisp to, rather than having it compile it's own
> lib?

Yes, libreadlineg2 and libreadlineg2-dev.

-- 
James


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