termcap and termlib

[Jhair Tocancipa Triana]

Jeffrey Holle writes:

> I'm attempting to build ddd (a GUI debugger frontend).
> Its configuration program files with:
>   - can't find a suitable termcap library

> In searching for termcap with Synaptic, I found and installed
> "termcap-compat v1.2.3.

> This hasn't fixed the problem the ddd's configuration script has.
> Does anyone have a solution/suggestion?


golem:~/local/src/ddd-3.3.11$ ./configure --help | grep -B1 termcap 
  --with-termlib=LIB      terminal library is
                          LIB=mytinfo|ncurses|curses|termcap|terminfo|...

Use ncurses instead of termcap. Do you have libncurses5 installed?

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--Jhair