From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Feb  2 06:10:22 2000
Subject: Re: I *do* have ncurses!
From: Dirk Laurie <dirk at calvyn dot puk dot ac dot za>
To: edd at debian dot org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu (Octave Help List)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:20:36 +0200 (SAST)

Dirk Eddelbuettel skryf:
> 
> You probably need a -dev package as well to _compile_ against ncurse. The
> one you show only allows to _run_ ncurses code. Configure probably checks
> for the hesder files, which you don't have installed.
> 
This sounded good, so I installed the package.  But it is not the
answer.

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configure: warning: I couldn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses, -lcurses, or -ltermlib!
configure: warning: I didn't find runtest -- install DejaGNU if you want to run `make check'

[dirk at wskdpl| octave-2 dot 0 dot 16]$ rpm -qa  octave-2.0.16]$ rpm -qa | grep curse
ncurses-4.2-18
ncurses-devel-4.2-18
[dirk at wskdpl octave-2.0.16]$ 
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Or is there some "make clean" that I should have used before
running ./config to cancel the effects of the previous run,
before ncurses-devel was installed?

Dirk L.



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