[Asterisk-Users] Termcap support not found

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 13:33, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Friday 02 May 2003 03:13 am, WipeOut . wrote:
> > I can sympathise with the new users who get these compile errors
> > because the instructions for setting up Asterisk on the
> > asterisk.org website says the following..
> >
> > --snip--
> > You must have readline and openssl and thier respective development
> > packages. You must be running Linux 2.4.x
> > You must have the Linux Kernel Sources package installed on your
> > system. --snip--
> >
> > There is no mention of these packages that are also required..
> >
> > bison
> > libtermcap
> > libtermcap-devel
> > newt
> > newt-devel
> > ncurses
> > ncurses-devel
> >
> > ..and while it may seem logical to install these to a hardend coder
> > it means nothing to a newbie who is just getting started in the
> > Open Source world and wanting to try the awesome Asterisk PBX..
> 
> Actually, I was considering throwing all of the blame onto RedHat,
> Mandrake, and all of the other distributions that when you install
> a library, it doesn't install the corresponding HEADER FILES, but that
> doesn't go over too well on this list.
> 
> If you installed from source, this wouldn't be a problem, dammit.  Why
> must RedHat/Mandrake/etc. make the newbie's life harder?  And yes,
> that's a rhetorical question.

Not that it matters much, but my favorite distro Debian would be lumped
into that last comment. I don't want the headers to libraries that I
will never compile against. My workstation already has 1210 packages,
most of which I don't need headers laying around crufting up the place. 

Ohhh noo, I just defended RH.

-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>