termcap in Debian:difficulties building programs

[nuno romano <nuno_romano@yahoo.com>]

In Debian there is a termcap-compat package for i386
systems,I run a Sarge PowerPC system,so I needed to
get a SuSE source,build it in Debian,and with alien
create a .deb binary.It installs without problem,but
I tried to build MySQL-4.1.12(from MySQL AB servers in
Sweden) and the configure script warns:

...
checking termcap.h usability ... no
checking termcap.h presence ... no
checking termcap.h ... no
...
...
checking for tgetent in lncurses ... no
checking for tgetent in lcurses ... no
checking for tgetent in ltermcap ... no
checking for termcap function library ...configure: \
             error: no curses/termcap library found
             
error: Bad exit status...

However all is there,and dpkg --status termcap
outputs: install ok installed.

So what is the specificity around termcap in Debian?
Trying to build Bro(the IDS program) problems
around termcap also happend.


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