On 10/3/2006, "Ralph Stoker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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. > many binary distros split packages into package and package-dev. The latter contains the headers needed for compiling programs. Try installing ncurses-dev - yast should tell you what other packages there are with ncurses in the name.
