From Bugzilla Helper: 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.
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
works for me as well. the loader should be making that symbolic link for you.