From: Peter Whaite <peta@whaite.ca>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Cc: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Freebsd configure misses <curses.h> and <term.h>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:23:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FBCDC62.3080209@whaite.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031119185911.GA15117@scowler.net>
Clint Adams wrote:
>>For some time now I have been trying to compile CVS zsh on a freebsd
>>machine. It fails on Src/Modules/terminfo.c
>>
>>
>
>I have a similar problem on FreeBSD 4.8. What's happening in my case is
>that configure finds libtinfo (which, along with libtermcap and
>libcurses, is just a symlink to libncurses), thus the
>case "$LIBS" in *curses*) fails.
>
>--with-curses-terminfo doesn't help because tinfo is still preferred.
>
>
Yes that is it -- /usr/lib/libtinfo* links to libncurses*. I see in
other threads that #defining ERR has been proposed for other reasons. I
guess that will fix it, but still leave the implicit declaration
warnings. Seems it would be better to fix configure, assuming this
libtinfo link thing is something reasonably "standard".
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-19 1:30 Peter Whaite
2003-11-19 18:59 ` Clint Adams
2003-11-20 15:23 ` Peter Whaite [this message]
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