Karel Zak wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:02:16PM -0400, Subrahmanian, Raj wrote:All, I am trying to install libvir on my SUSE box. The .configure command halts with the following message. ibxml2 xml2-config ... yes ('') checking for initscr in -lcurses... no configure: error: curses library not found But, I have installed curses, and cdk. linux:~/xen/libvirt-0.1.0 # whereis curses curses: /usr/include/curses.h /usr/include/curses What am I missing out here?ncurses vs. curses ?
Yes, this is the problem. I hacked configure.in to look for ncurses but have not had time (or forgot) to submit a proper patch.
Maybe we should check for ncurses in the libvirt configure script.
yep. I will have to recall the proper way to look for both and submit patch, unless someone beats me to it.
Jim