Thanks Philippe. I fixed that so that CFLAGS points to the include folder (I tried both the parent folder and the folder with the headers). Still no luck ... Josh On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Philippe Troin wrote: > On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 14:43 -0400, Josh Wasserstein wrote: > > Since I am not root on this system, I downloaded ncurses and installed it > > manually (also using ./configure --prefix=), which > > seems to have gone well. > > > > I then updated the following paths: > > > > INSTALLATION_PATH='/path/to/installation' > > export PATH=$INSTALLATION_PATH/bin/:$PATH > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALLATION_PATH/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > export CFLAGS=-I$INSTALLATION_PATH/lib > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Shouldn't that be: > export CFLAGS=-I$INSTALLATION_PATH/include > > > and tried installing Zsh again, but got the same ncurses error. As far > as I > > can tell, the path variables above point to the right locations, and I > can > > check this on the shell. > > You may need to re-run the configure step after changing the environment > variables, otherwise the changes may not be picked up. > > Phil. > >