compiling *****x

[somebitch]

hi everyone, i am back from my system crash type thing. i ended up reinstallling with RH9.0 and lets just say, it was not easy. the install wouldnt complete & said there was a bug so it took a long time, i ended up having to format, losing all my crap...

this is what happens during the configure:

checking whether to use use tgetent or setupterm... setupterm
checking for setupterm in -lncurses... no
checking for setupterm in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for tgetent in -lmytinfo... no
checking for setupterm in -ltinfo... no
configure: WARNING: cannot find setupterm - trying tgetent
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
configure: error: cannot find setupterm or tgetent

i checed to see if i have termcap & libtermcap and both are installed.

what am i missing??

please help..


also,
why doesnt the generic install of redhat 9 come with gcc installed?? it makes no sense...

[mrBen]

Check to see if you have ncurses-devel installed.

[somebitch]

YAY. that was the problem. thanks.

[mrBen]

Heh - np.

FYI I just did a search on Google for setupterm linux rh9 and the single result was that package.

Some of the distros apparently don't put setupterm and tgenent into the libtermcap package - SuSE is the same, at least.