Russell Tiedt wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''Compiling sqafix'':

 RT>>> Good news first, compiles great on my Debian system.

 BS>> Damn good :-)

 RT>>> SuSE 8.0, if I copy (FTP) the maximus directory from the Debian
 RT>>> box, it  compiles fine, if I then do a make clean, and try and
 RT>>> compile, it says it  cannot find -lcurses while compiling squish.
 RT>>> Weird.

 RT>>> So no compiler problem, but for some reason, curses is not being
 RT>>> found, will  later install *everything* with *curses* in its name
 RT>>> and try again.

 BS>> squish requires ncurses, because some libery (it bet it's libcompat)
 BS>> would require it.. It's kinda sad ..

 RT> Hmmm ... compared the *curses* files on my Debian system to those
 RT> on the SuSE  8.0 system, and found that "libncurses.a" was not
 RT> symlinked to "libcurses.a"  in the /usr/lib/ directory. Created the
 RT> symlink and Maximus compiles fine.  Now I wonder why? ....

Hmm.. That's pretty wierd.. ncurses and curses shouldn't be two different things?

Bo

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