On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 07:26, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > 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?
If you don't have permission to install packages, then you will need to build some of the dependencies in your home directory. > 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? Debian splits libraries into runtime and development components: the runtime package contains just the versioned shared library such as libncurses.so.6, and the development package contains the symlink to the appropriate version of the shared library (e.g. libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.6), and the header files. So even if libncurses.so.6 is installed, that is not enough to build with. If you're building in your home directory, you can probably just get: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html and build that with --prefix=$HOME. I think that this will provide an appropriate flex: https://invisible-island.net/reflex/reflex.html The only other things that I build the Debian package with are Perl and Xaw, which you can skip if you don't fancy building Perl, and don't care about X. --bod
