Bug 75282

Summary:	No curses/termcap library found
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <ian.harris>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Eido Inoue <havill>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	srevivo
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Description Need Real Name 2002-10-06 19:16:43 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; .NET 
CLR 1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
Problem configuring MySQL-3.23.52 from source code on Red Hat 8.0 being unable 
to locate the libncurses library.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Unpacking the source code for MySQL-3.23.52
2. Running ./configure

Actual Results:  The following error message occurred and thus stopped 
the "configure" process

checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No
curses/termcap library found


Expected Results:  It should configure, so I can "make" then "make install"

Additional info:

I managed to workaround this with either:

./configure --with-named-curses-libs=/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.2

or running

ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.2 /usr/lib/libncurses.so

before being able to do "./configure" without arguments.  This symbolic link 
existed by default in previous versions.

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmac 2002-10-06 21:16:19 UTC

works for me:

$ ll /usr/lib/libncurses.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 xmj  5 05:05 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
-> libncurses.so.5
$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libncurses.so
ncurses-devel-5.2-28

Comment 2 Eido Inoue 2003-01-20 21:52:25 UTC

works for me as well. the loader should be making that symbolic link for you.