Hi Karl. On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 10:48:15PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > even though libtermcap is there: > > $ ls -l /usr/lib64/libtermcap.so.2* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 1 20:17 /usr/lib64/libtermcap.so.2 -> > libtermcap.so.2.0.8 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18384 Feb 1 20:17 /usr/lib64/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
The linker should be looking for libtermcap.so, not libtermcap.so.2. Are you sure it is there? > Is it there so gnucap compiles on historic unixes or what ? Linking termcap does not seem to be neccessary these days. But it probably was, and it does not seem to hurt much. NB: the autotools build system [1] does not try -ltermcap (anymore), and will probably fail on older systems. Not sure if this is a good solution. Maybe pkg-config is? cheers felix [1] http://gnucap.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/gnucap:manual:autotools
