[Alpine-info] Terminfo/termcap not found

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, apu1 at weibell.no wrote:


:) I'm trying to compile alpine from source, to include the passfile 

:) option, since I'm "sick and tired" of typing my password every time...

:) 

:) (...)

:) configure: error: Terminfo/termcap not found

:) 

:) Tried to google for this, and it seems termcap is kind of obsolete. One

:) suggested running

:) 

:) ln -s /lib/libncurses.so.5 /lib/libtermcap.so.2

:) 

:) ...but that didn't seem to have any effect.


Well, what you tried to do is to tell programs to load libncurses when 
then need to load libtermcap. Do not do that.

The problem probably stems from the fact that you are missing the header 
files. Look to see where in your distribution is the ncurses-devel package 
and install it. That will probably fix your problem.

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/