On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:20:53PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > I'm trying to build vile-9.8 on a Debian system where I have a shared > hosting account with ssh access. > > I'm doing "./configure --prefix=$HOME" and it runs OK but there are > couple of warnings. > > Firstly it can't find a good lex so it says:- > configure: WARNING: disabling build for lex-filters > I don't think this is going to be an issue. > > However, later on in configure I get:- > configure: WARNING: Cannot find -ltermlib, -lcurses, or -ltermcap > and then at link time there are loads of undefined references to > tputs, tgoto, and a lot of other txxxxx symbols. > > So presumably I need to build one of those libraries, or is there > something simpler I can do? > The system does have libncurses, it's in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Is it possible that directory isn't on the cc/linker search path? How do I add it?
-- Chris Green
