Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (84 mails)

[Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:03, Pete wrote:
> I'm just learning to program using the ncurses library
> on SuSE9.1. However, it seems that while there are a
> few versions of the libcurses.so.{x} and
> libncursesw.so.{x}.{y}...(?) shared objects, there is
> no established libcurses.so link (like many of the
> other system libraries).
>
> Is this just a minor bug?

No, it's a case of "RTFM"... ;-)


> I'm getting by for now by making a symbolic link to
> libncursesw.so.5 and it seems to be working alright
> for my limited needs. Is this correct? Has anyone else
> experienced this?

Amazing - how can you even compile your program when you don't have the 
ncurses-devel package installed - which includes both the link AND, more 
importantly, all the ncurses header files (/usr/include/ncurses.h)?

That should have given you a hint that your system is not set up for NCurses 
development.


CU
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Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx>                Penguin by conviction.
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