[Asterisk-Users] termcapsupport not found

[Steven Critchfield]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 08:34, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> 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).

Holding my tongue on the comment from the ricer.

> > 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:

Just having the library doesn't do crap when you compiling. You need the
-dev package that includes the headers to link into the library.

get libncurses5-dev and all should be fine.

-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>