Re: cmake needs -ltinfo on Linux

[Benjamin Cooke <bcooke%freedomofknowledge.org@localhost>]

I'd hate to sound uninformed, but I take it ncurses should probably be used. The gnu'ism for terminfo is tinfo according to pkgconf. Why do we have to traverse the lib directories and subsequently traverse symbol tables?

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 8:18 AM Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:37:08AM +0000, adr%SDF.ORG@localhost wrote:
> > I've been using cmake on Linux distros with a split curses/terminfo as
> > well for years, never had this problem.
> >
> > Joerg
>
> Maybe the curses library is complete but the system presents a
> symlink.  Can you share which distribution are you using with
> pkgsrc?

There is no libcurses.{a,so} on the various SuSE flavors.

Joerg