That's a known bug that's not yet fixed:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6760759
I've cc'ed desktop-discuss (since ncurses comes from the desktop team),
so the engineers there can help with your other issues.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use OSOL 2008.11 to do some programming. The application I'm
> building is using ncurses, and the one available in IPS seems not to work.
>
> First, the includes are in /usr/gnu/include which is not picked up by gcc (
> only irritating), but after fixing that gcc still cannot find ncurses.h. And
> that is not so very strange as an 'ls -la' shows:
>
> andrnils at t61p /usr/gnu/include =0
> $ ls -la
> total 219
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 19 2009-01-02 10:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root bin 6 2009-01-02 10:35 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 6582 2009-01-02 10:35 cursesapp.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 27630 2009-01-02 10:35 cursesf.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 19486 2009-01-02 10:35 cursesm.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 8430 2009-01-02 10:35 cursesp.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 45070 2009-01-02 10:35 cursesw.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 7304 2009-01-02 10:35 cursslk.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 2891 2009-01-02 10:35 eti.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 8824 2009-01-02 10:35 etip.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 17190 2009-01-02 10:35 form.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 11865 2009-01-02 10:35 menu.h
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 3 2009-01-02 10:35 ncurses
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 3655 2009-01-02 10:35 ncurses_dll.h
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2009-01-02 10:35 ncurses.h -> curses.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 3770 2009-01-02 10:35 panel.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 3476 2009-01-02 10:35 termcap.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 38103 2009-01-02 10:35 term.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 3005 2009-01-02 10:35 unctrl.h
>
> ncurses.h is a symlink to curses.h, which does not exist. It does however
> exist in /usr/gnu/include/ncurses/. So perhaps ncurses/curses.h should be
> moved to ./curses.h for this to work.
>
> Best regards
> Andreas
