Subj : Compiling sqafix
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Wed Dec 10 2003 05:22 am

Hello Bo.

09 Dec 03 14:19, you wrote to me:

RT>>>> So no compiler problem, but for some reason, curses is not
RT>>>> being found, will  later install *everything* with *curses* in
RT>>>> its name and try again.

BS>>> squish requires ncurses, because some libery (it bet it's
BS>>> libcompat) would require it.. It's kinda sad ..

RT>> Hmmm ... compared the *curses* files on my Debian system to those
RT>> on the SuSE  8.0 system, and found that "libncurses.a" was not
RT>> symlinked to "libcurses.a"  in the /usr/lib/ directory. Created
RT>> the symlink and Maximus compiles fine.  Now I wonder why? ....

BS> Hmm.. That's pretty wierd.. ncurses and curses shouldn't be two
BS> different things?

curses and ncurses are similar, I believe the "n" in ncurses stands for
"new", I do know, that in a few other programs, they seem to be
interchangable, with ncurses, being preffered.

Russell

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