--- Ven 1/10/10, Dipak Gaigole ha scritto: > Hello, > > Recently I had uninstalled my previous version of cygwin > (1.5.24) and > did a fresh install of latest cygwin (1.7.7.1) > > When I tried to recompile my code it failed because of > libtermcap.a > not found. This termcap library is needed by my code.
newly compiled applications should use terminfo (that is, libncurses) and not libtermcap, see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-12/msg00000.html > > Further investigation shows that this library is missing > from this > latest cygwin installer package. > > As far as I know, the termcap library is provided under > "terminfo" or > the older "termcap" cygwin package. > > During my installation, I had included all the "devel" > packages. > > ######################################### > administra...@engwin03-64dev1 ~ > $ cygcheck -c "cygwin" > Cygwin Package Information > Package Version Status > cygwin 1.7.7-1 OK > > administra...@engwin03-64dev1 ~ > $ cygcheck -c | egrep "ncurses|terminfo|termcap" > libncurses-devel 5.7-18 OK > libncurses10 5.7-18 OK > libncurses8 5.5-10 OK > libncurses9 5.7-16 OK > libncursesw-devel 5.7-18 OK > libncursesw10 5.7-18 OK > ncurses 5.7-18 OK > ncurses-demo 5.7-18 OK > ncursesw 5.7-18 OK > ncursesw-demo 5.7-18 OK > termcap 5.7_20091114-14 OK > terminfo 5.7_20091114-14 OK > terminfo0 5.5_20061104-12 OK > > administra...@engwin03-64dev1 ~ > $ > ######################################### > > Does anyone has faced similar issue? > > Meanwhile I am downloading the latest cygwin 1.7.7.1 source > code and > planning to recompile it. > > Thanks, > Dipak > Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple