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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