Hi, Please pardon my novice experience! Does this mean that I should use the readline library for termcap and/or ncurses library calls from now?
joost witteveen wrote: : :Try : gcc -o prog1 prog1.c -lreadline :This at least links. : :> :> prog2.c :> char tgoto(); int main() { tgoto(); return 0; } :> $ gcc prog1.c -ltermcap :> ld: cannot open -ltermcap: no such file or directory :> : :again, : gcc -o prog2 prog2.c -lreadline :works. : :> both libs are in /lib: :> libncurses.so.3.0 :> libtermcap.so.2 -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8 :> libtermcap.so.2.0.8 :> : :I've recently learnt that, for -termcap to be found, one needs :.so links: : libtermcap.so -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8 :and that one is missing. :I'm not sure if this is a bug in the termcap package: the debian :system tries to supply all packagres linked with readline, and :as such the missing .so files may be intentional (I just don't know). : -- -------------------- Timothy C. Phan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -------------------- NEC America, Inc. ASL -------------------- 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75038 -------------------- tel: (214)-518-3437 fax: (214)-518-3499 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]