[ale] What am I missing?

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On 11/13/06, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Would you know what this package would be?
> >
> > checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No
> > curses/termcap library found
> >
> >
>
> may not be exactly what you are looking for:
>
> (from the debian pages)
>
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/oldlibs/termcap-compat
>
> Package: termcap-compat
> Compatibility package for old termcap-based programs.
>
> The termcap-compat package provides the libtermcap.so.2 and /etc/termcap
> files which are required to run non-Debian, binary-only termcap-based
> programs. Since libc6-based programs are hopefully "modern" enough to be
> linked with ncurses (or slang), this package only provides a libc5-based
> libtermcap library.
>
> The termcap-compat package isn't meant to be used to compile programs
> therefore it doesn't provide all the necessary files for compilation. If
> you want to compile a program that claims to need termcap, why not try
> ncurses's termcap emulation instead? It's as simple as linking with
> ncurses instead of libtermcap (i.e. replace the '-ltermcap' with
> '-lncurses' in the makefile). Ncurses' termcap emulation routines
> translate terminfo entries to termcap entries on the fly, so you don't
> even need an /etc/termcap file.
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See also:

http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/warty/source/termcap-compat

Source package: termcap-compat (1.2.3) [universe]
The following binary packages are built from this source package:

termcap-compat
    Compatibility package for old termcap-based programs.

Other Packages Related to termcap-compat
[adep]= build-depends	[idep]= build-depends-indep

    *

      [adep] altgcc
          Alternate gcc package for the libc5 environment.

    *

      [adep] libc5-altdev
          The Linux C library version 5 (alternative dev files).




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