I can reproduced the problem here with a Oneiric chroot and cowbuilder . But the problem also appears with a small testcase so something must be broken in libncurses5-dev.
root@x200:~# cat ncurses-test.c #include <curses.h> int main (void) { initscr(); return(0); } root@x200:~# gcc -lncurses ncurses-test.c /tmp/ccDnNL1b.o: In function `main': ncurses-test.c:(.text+0x5): undefined reference to `initscr' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status root@x200:~# -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/832924 Title: slurm version 0.3.3-2 failed to build in oneiric To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/slurm/+bug/832924/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs