Re: cannot find -ltermcap ?

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:08:08PM +0200, Philippe Hezaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get this message when i compile the last tar.gz
> I'm on gentoo with  gcc-4.3.2
> I've seen a previous mail in the list about the issue on gentoo but it  
> don't help me, apart the tip for the sys-libs/libtermcap-compat.
>
> cc   rmidish.c \
> 		 -o rmidish  -lreadline -ltermcap
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
> cannot find -ltermcap
> collect2: ld a retourné 1 code d'état d'exécution
> make: *** [rmidish] Erreur 1
>
> Any help? Thanks in advance.
>

hi,

Is seems that libtermcap is not visible for any reason,
In which directory is it installed ?

[...]

If for any reason you can't use libtermcap, you can try
using libncurses instead: edit Makefile.in, replace
-ltermcap by -lncurses, run ./configure && make

let me know if it works

-- Alexandre