I'll top post due to white space...??? You need to install yast2-ncurses-devel ( or something similar ). The devel installs the header files that you need to build your application.
Steve On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:32:28 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. >
