Subj : Compiling sqafix
To : Bo Simonsen
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Fri Dec 05 2003 04:07 pm
Hello Bo.
04 Dec 03 18:50, you wrote to me:
RT>> Good news first, compiles great on my Debian system.
BS> Damn good :-)
RT>> SuSE 8.0, if I copy (FTP) the maximus directory from the Debian
RT>> box, it compiles fine, if I then do a make clean, and try and
RT>> compile, it says it cannot find -lcurses while compiling squish.
RT>> Weird.
RT>> So no compiler problem, but for some reason, curses is not being
RT>> found, will later install *everything* with *curses* in its name
RT>> and try again.
BS> squish requires ncurses, because some libery (it bet it's libcompat)
BS> would require it.. It's kinda sad ..
Hmmm ... compared the *curses* files on my Debian system to those on the SuSE
8.0 system, and found that "libncurses.a" was not symlinked to "libcurses.a"
in the /usr/lib/ directory. Created the symlink and Maximus compiles fine.
Now I wonder why? ....
Russell
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