From owner-bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Nov 24 21:30:25 1996
Subject: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: jay at elec dot gla dot ac dot uk (J.Sigbrandt)
cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:30:05 -0600

On  1-Nov-1996, J. Sigbrandt <jay at elec dot gla dot ac dot uk> wrote:

: Didn't manage to compile pre-2.0 out of the box.
: Firstly I've included the erros generated by the compiler.
: Later I included config.log   A few months ago had trouble
: due to ncurses being on my system rather than curses,termcap etc...
: This seems to be related.
: 
: gcc  -o info info.o dir.o display.o doc.o echo_area.o filesys.o
: info-utils.o infodoc.o infomap.o m-x.o nodes.o search.o session.o
: signals.o terminal.o tilde.o window.o indices.o xmalloc.o nodemenu.o
: footnotes.o dribble.o variables.o gc.o error.o getopt.o getopt1.o
: [... errors deleted ...]

I added a check for ncurses in the info/configure file, but that
disappeared when I upgraded the version info that is distributed with
Octave.  Now I've fixed it again, so it shouldn't be a problem with
the next test release.

You should be able to get past this by setting

  TERMLIBS = -lncurses

in info/Makefile.


Thanks,

jwe