I just had this problem a couple hours ago, actually, on my Potato box. I'm not sure what happened to break it (was working fine just a few days ago) but a purge of all *curses*-dev packages and then a reinstall of libncurses5-dev did the trick. Also let me remove a couple `legacy' packages.
BTW, WTH does bash depend on the ncurses in `oldlibs'? On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, John Pearson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 12:28:01AM -0500, Todd Suess wrote > > I recently did a apt-get dist-upgrade on Jan 2nd, which updated ncurses to > > version 5.0. I didn't notice any problems at first, but I went to build a > > custom version of Nethack and noticed that it failed to compile with curses > > errors. In examining the directorys, I found the following. During the > > update > > to curses5 all these links were changed in my /usr/include directory. > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 2 20:54 curses.h -> > > ../curses.h > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 2 20:54 eti.h -> ../eti.h > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 2 20:54 form.h -> ../form.h > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 2 20:54 menu.h -> ../menu.h > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 2 20:54 ncurses.h -> > > ../ncurses.h > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 2 20:54 panel.h -> > > ../panel.h > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 2 20:54 term.h -> ../term.h > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 2 20:54 termcap.h -> > > ../termcap.h > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 2 20:54 unctrl.h -> > > ../unctrl.h > > > > All of these are broken symlinks, and with a little furthur testing I have > > confirmed that no program that requires curses will now build sucessfully > > on my > > potato system. Has anyone else ran into this problem, and is there a > > suggested fix? With so many programs using curses now days, this seems to > > be > > a serious problem. > > > > Disclaimer: I'm running slink, and have never used the potato ncurses. > > In slink, /usr/include/ncurses is a symlink to '.'; if this is a > real directory in the ncurses5 package and that package installs links > to ../*.h in /usr/include/ncurses, you may get something like you > describe. > > If you're feeling brave, try: > # rm /usr/include/ncurses > # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses5-dev*.deb > > > Good luck, > > > John P. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
