On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Scott Gray wrote:

I get the following error message while trying to compile vim 5.0 on SuSE 5.1:

/usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory

Could someone please shed some light on this for me?

If I remember correctly, this is because the vim make process is expecting to find libtermcap.so (or maybe libtermcap.a?) in /usr/lib. In SuSE these files are in /usr/lib/termcap. For some reason the autoconf script doesn't realize this.. olaris puts 'em in /usr/ccs/lib/libtermcap.a BSDi puts them in /usr/lib/libtermcap.a Anyway, i found the SH_LIB Makefile variable and just tacked /usr/lib/termcap to the end of it. This isn't really a geneeral fix for vim, but it does work for SuSE. It is of course, ironic, as /usr/lib/termcap/libtermcap.so is a link to /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2 :-) .. When you can't find something, it's probably under your nose. -josh -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e