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From: Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Caml-list] -custom linking against -lncurses?

I have noticed on my machine, ocamlc, using -custom, tries to link the
resulting code against ncurses[1].

Is this behaviour expected?  I know how to get around this on my OS but
not sure why it's happening in the first place.

/Malcolm 

[1]
malcolm@nix-junkyard:/tmp$ ocamlc -o foo foo.ml
malcolm@nix-junkyard:/tmp$ ocamlc -custom -o foo foo.ml
/nix/store/1iigiim5855m8j7pmwf5xrnpf705s4dh-binutils-2.21.1a/bin/ld:
cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
File "foo.ml", line 1, characters 0-1:
Error: Error while building custom runtime system