RE: libncurses

["David Knox" <dknox at esotericsystems dot com>]

But there is a package "ncurses: Libraries for terminal handling"  that
given its label and description, it can easily be assumed that it really
does contain libncurses.

That's all I'm trying to say.
-- dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On
Behalf
> Of Max Bowsher
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 3:59 PM
> To: David Knox; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: libncurses
> 
> David Knox wrote:
> > I got into situation trying to compile an application with GCC under
> > cygwin. When I ran configure all of the C++ test snips failed. I
checked
> > the command line that was being used to compile the snips and tried
it
> > from the command line myself. It turned out that my last update of
> > libncurses from the NASA mirror did not contain the library or the
test
> > executables. The libncurses tar only contained the documentation. I
> > found the libraries and binaries from another site and just dropped
them
> > into the right directories. All seems right for the moment. I just
> > wanted to let the community know that the libraries are not in the
> > archive.
> 
> There is no such package as "libncurses".
> 
> There are various packages, all available via setup.exe, containing
all
> the
> pieces of ncurses.
> 
> DO NOT just manually unpack Cygwin archives unless yout REALLY know
what
> you
> are doing.
> 
> 
> Max.
> 
> 
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