Re: libcurses/libncurses problem

[David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

Christopher W Aiken <cwaiken@telerama.com> writes:
CWA> I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application
CWA> (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember).  What I had to do was:
CWA> 
CWA> cd /lib
CWA> ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses
CWA> 
CWA> The compile/link was looking for "libncurses" and there was
CWA> none.  The symb link created by the above ln command worked.

Don't do that by hand.  Install the appropriate -dev package
(libncurses-dev, probably) instead; it should install the needed
header files, create that symbolic link, and possibly also install a
static library.

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