Martin, you need ncurses and readline. They are probably called libncurses and libreadline. Debian places the headers in separate "devel" packages, so you will also need to install libncurses-devel and libreadline-devel. (There may be version numbers after libncurses and libreadline -- I'm not really sure) As for the Makefile errors, it sounds as though the Makefiles may require Gnu Make, which I don't think FreeBSD uses. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Martin McCormick wrote: > Thank you for the information. As luck would have it, I > thought of that when I built our Freebsd system here at work and > I did build it to be able to run Linux binaries. Right now, the > problem is that I can't get it to compile on Linux either > although it looks like all I need is a library that contains > curses.h and readline.h. I ran dselect on the Linux system and > found a libcurses which is part of the ruby scripting language, > but after installation of ruby, nothing changed. > > I am not sure what library I need on the Linux system but > that is probably all that stands between success and failure. > > If you hadn't reminded me about FreeBSD being able to run > Linux binaries, I might have not even thought of that right now. > > Gil Andre writes: > > > >Martin, > > > >About my last answer... > > > >I think the following web page would be more appropriate : > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >