On the vim user mailing list, Benjamin R. Haskell explained the issue: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Suresh Govindachar wrote: >[...] >> >> I tried 3 ways to install "vim-with-everything" on Fedora Core 8, but >> failed: >> >> Attempt 1) vim-7.2.tar.bz2 - typing make resulted in the following >> error: >> >> [...] >> checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! >> You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. >> Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib. > > Generally, to compile software on RPM-based distributions, you need to > install '-dev' or '-devel' packages for things that are normally installed > as binaries. > > So, you might have 'curses' or 'ncurses' installed, but you also need > 'curses-devel' or 'ncurses-dev' (I don't know the correct name). > > You'll probably need several such packages. [...]
-- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
