Richard, The answer seems pretty obvious - install the gcc suite. Its kinda hard to properly compile things on a system without these. Regardless of being installed from the same CD you neglected to install a very important set of tools.
Sean Richard White wrote: > This exercise relates to a requirement that I be able to install a working > Bacula on a computer in the event that our production Bacula server failed. > The test was a success, but with some qualifications. > > In the first place, our working Bacula server is on Red Hat. Since we are a > Novell shop, my boss wanted me to run this exercise on a SuSE distro. I used > SLES 9.3 and got somewhat peculiar results. > > I installed SLES 9.3 from the same CD set on two computers. The only > difference in the installs is that on computer #2, I neglected to choose the > gcc suite, while on computer #1 I chose the c develpment tools during install. > > I installed the same version of Bacula (3.3.6, the version that is on the > production server) on each computer, but encounter an error when I run make > on computer #1. No errors on computer #2. Here is the error: > > usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: > cannot find -ltermcap > > My research has indicated that this is the library for the termcap program, > and I used YaST to install termcap; I could find no entries for "ltermcap" or > "libtermcap". > > How can I get this package onto my server? > > I posted this question on the Novell discussion forum, and the answer was > that, for the last ten years only Red Hat has used libtermcap. I was advise > to try linking to -lncurses instead, with the admonition that I would need to > install ncurses-devel. I am sure I would have to edit a make file to handle > this. > > I am certainly willing to attempt this, though I have little doubt that I > will be groping around a bit, since I am new to this realm. I do know how to > use an editor, though. > > It is still curious, isn't it, that make ran without problems on one computer > and not on another when they were both set up with the same CDs, both of the > OS and the app? > > Does anyone have any comments or advice? > > Richard White > Network Engineer > Mason County, Washington > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Sean O'Grady System Administrator Sheridan College 905-845-9430 x2166 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
