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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: ncurses not found when compiling various packages
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 02:24:56 +0200
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* Corinna Vinschen (2004-07-19 13:57 +0200)
> On Jul 19 13:47, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> I often get the message from configure scripts for applications that
>> are curses-based that no ncurses could be found (although it actually
>> is installed[1] and many applications happily use it)
>> 
>> What's going wrong and how can I point the configure script to my
>> "ncurses" dlls? Any environment variable or something like that?
> 
> Installing libncurses-devel might help.

That worked - the configure terminated successfully. Unfortunately the
make errored for "WeeChat" but at least I could now compile cmatrix
:-). Thanke


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