On 17-Feb-99 Robert King wrote: > I'm trying to compile pine 4.10 and having problems. The build fails with > ld: cannot open -lncurses: No such file or directory > I'm trying to work out if I'm missing a required library before reporting > it as a bug, but there doesn't seem to be any way to find out what a > source package depends on, and pine being pine, there isn't a binary > package to check. > > (for the pine problem) These are the ncusrses stuff I have: >
In Debian there is a separation between the development libraries and what is need to run an already built program. You do have the ncurses library. However you did not install the -dev package so you can not compile anything that needs ncurses. The -dev gives the header files and the libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.?.? link. Source depends is being implemented and added to dpkg. A few developers have test versions.