On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:38:27AM -0600, I wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:06:37AM -0500, Wise, Jeremey wrote:
>I think you're gonna find out you don't have it installed, as difficult
>as that is to fathom -- so *much* stuff uses curses.
>
>On second look, that error from ld seems wrong, too; it shouldn't be
>looking for "-lncurses", it should be looking for "libncurses".  I'm
>wondering if that's a thinko in the makefile -- perhaps the .o files
>should be at the end; there isn't anything else after xstrings.o, which
>may be confusing getargs in gcc.
>
>Noting that you're in the beta, I'm leaning towards this; I suspect
>someone hosed the makefile.

And JD Ross replied:
> You need libncurses-dev.

And of course, he's right, Jeremey; sorry for the mislead.  I'd
forgotten that the ncurses package only includes the runtime
library, not the linker stub.  What I get for being only theoretically
knowledgeable.  :-)  Look for a package like ncurses-devel, that
matches the version number of whatever your ncurses is.

Cheers,
-- jra
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