http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531853 Summary: Missing link libtermcap.so in package termcap Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: ziegler@algorilla.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009071200 SUSE/3.0.12-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.12 The "termcap" package, when installed, does not create the required links # ln -s libtermcap.so.2 libtermcap.so # ln -s libcurses.so.1 libcurses.so You have to do this by hand, or else ld will complain about missing termcap and curses libraries. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Link any C program against libcurses. Actual Results: $ gcc -o conftest conftest.c -lm -lcurses /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses collect2: ld returned 1 exit status -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.