On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:02:16PM -0400, Subrahmanian, Raj wrote:
All, I am trying to install libvir on my SUSE box. The .configure command halts with the following message. ibxml2 xml2-config ... yes ('') checking for initscr in -lcurses... no configure: error: curses library not found But, I have installed curses, and cdk. linux:~/xen/libvirt-0.1.0 # whereis curses curses: /usr/include/curses.h /usr/include/curses What am I missing out here?
ncurses vs. curses ? # ls -la /usr/lib/libcurses* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mar 25 01:55 /usr/lib/libcurses.a -> libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 25 01:56 /usr/lib/libcurses.so -> libncurses.so.5.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 25 01:56 /usr/lib/libcursesw.a -> libncursesw.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Mar 25 01:56 /usr/lib/libcursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.5.5 Maybe we should check for ncurses in the libvirt configure script. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>