I am trying to use a freeware ballistics program and unable to configure it 
due to a missing library...though it would appear that I do have such a 
library on my system.

The program was a tar.gz and so has to be manually configured as opposed to 
using YaST.

On un-compressing and entering console to type # ./configure the following 
output was obtained:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/saballistics-1.3.2> ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for linuxdoc... false
checking for main in -lm... yes
checking for main in -lncurses... no
configure: error: ncurses library is required
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/saballistics-1.3.2>

My SuSE system does have ncurses 5.4.65 installed under system/libraries as 
well as yast2-ncurses under system/YaST so I don't know why the program 
cannot find the library..or is it the wrong flavour of ncurses on my system?

Any suggestions welcomed.

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