On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:26:07PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > 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?
You need the development package. The runtime package has a similarly named library file. For example (Debian/oldstable) libtinfo6 has /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtic.so.6 libncurses-dev hs /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so The plain ".so" is what development packages link with, e.g., -ltinfo -- Thomas E. Dickey <dic...@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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