[Asterisk-Users] termcapsupport not found

[Kevin Walsh]

dirk los [dirk at dicom.nl] wrote:
> I try to make an asterisk system and downloaded and unzipped the file
> asterisk-1.0-RC1.tar.gz. When I do the first make I got the following
> messages: ..... 
> checking for tgetent in ltermcap.......no
> checking for tgetent in ltinfo.......no
> checking for tgetent in lcurses.......no
> checking for tgetent in lncurses.......no
> configure: error: termcapsupport not found
> make: *** [editline/libedit.a] Error 1
> 
> I am using a recent stable debian system
> Linux version 2.2.20-idepci, gcc version 2.7.2.3
>
Yes, Debian's definition of "stable" clearly means "will never be
updated".  We run Asterisk on a Gentoo system (Linux 2.6.7-gentoo-r12
and GCC 3.3.3-r6).

> 
> As an extra I installed: termcap-compat  1.2.3    and  evms-curses 1.00-3
> In my /lib directory I see:    /lib/termcap.so.2   and
> /lib/termcap.so.2.08 
> Further I see a /etc/termcap file  and a /etc/terminfo file
> My monitor is a Compaq 1525
> 
> What can I do to get a valid termcap support?
> 
It appears that you're missing a symlink for libtermcap.so, as follows:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    19 May 25 00:01 /lib/libtermcap.so -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    19 May 25 00:01 /lib/libtermcap.so.2 -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 12124 May 21 00:55 /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8

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