On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:58:53 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:

> bdu...@lfs6:/usr/sbin$ ldd grub
>          linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
>          libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7efd000) libc.so.6
>          => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7ddc000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f59000)
> 
> Looks like it needs it to me.

Not quite. It'll happily build without it. One can even configure the 
build `--without-curses' to force the issue. However, I'm not sure what 
is actually gained or lost by not linking against ncurses. A quick grep 
of the source suggests "not much".

Regards
Greg
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