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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Max Bowsher > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 3:59 PM > To: David Knox; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
