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 -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
