On Jan 31, 2008 10:02 AM, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you mean you're running those commands from a different system, not
> from the one that's having the problem, then those results mean nothing.
> Unless I'm misreading you and you mean that you have completed building
> that system and have booted it...

I'm sorry I was unclear.  I have Indeed completed the building,
booted it, and ran those commands in the booted environment.

> ...
> did you take the suggestion to manually add to LDFLAGS?
yes
>  If so, and if it wouldn't work otherwise, then yes
It didn't.  SHOOT!
> Unfortunately the person who suggested that apparently emailed
> you personally rather than
> mailing the list, so I don't know else they might have told you -
> all I know is that adding to LDFLAGS is not a solution.

The entire message simply read:
Run LDFLAGS="-lncurses" ./configure and/or LDFLAGS="-lncurses" ./make

I chose the first option with the configure command

> what do you see with "ls -l /usr/lib/libncurses*"?
I got this:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     13 2008-01-27 22:02 /usr/lib/libncurses.a
-> libncursesw.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 2008-01-27 22:02 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a
-> libncurses++w.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     18 2008-01-27 21:53 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 2008-01-27 22:02
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.6
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 292063 2008-01-28 17:28 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140712 2008-01-28 17:28 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 479370 2008-01-28 17:28 /usr/lib/libncursesw.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     26 2008-01-27 22:02 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so
-> ../../lib/libncursesw.so.5
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