Re: python build failure on ubuntu

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:03:16AM +0000, maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:27:54AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > libtinfo-dev/xenial,now 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> >   developer's library for the low-level terminfo library
> > 
> > libtinfo5/xenial,now 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed]
> >   shared low-level terminfo library for terminal handling
> > 
> > suggests terminfo might work instead. (ubuntu 16.04.14 has python 3.5
> > in its default repository, but not python 3.6...)
> 
> I wonder if there's libtinfo5-dev
> (I think pkgsrc can also supply this if asked?)

No such luck:

$ apt search libtinfo5-dev
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
$ apt search libtinfo-dev
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
libtinfo-dev/xenial,now 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  developer's library for the low-level terminfo library

Cheers,

Patrick