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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