Re: Ncurses, what is the package

[Peter Valchev <pvalchev@sightly.net>]

It is in the base system, named as "curses".

You need to tweak the emacs check from -lncurses to -lcurses.  If you
use the ports tree for such things, you won't be having such issues.

> To: misc@openbsd.org
> From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
> Subject: Ncurses, what is the package
> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:30:51 -0700
> Message-ID: <m1y9fuasg4.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i586-pc-linux-gnu)
> 
> Can some one guide me a little in determining where to get ncurses
> package for 3.0.  grepping the ports INDEX only shows this:
> 
> 42:aumix-2.7|audio/aumix||full-screen ncurses or GTK-based [...]
> 
> An attempt to build emacs-21 shows, during ./configure a check for
> tparm:
>   [...]
>     checking for getpt... no
>     checking for tparm in -lncurses... no
>     checking for dgettext in -lintl... no
>   [...]
> 
> The tparm manpage is available on this 3.0 machine but apparently
> emacs install routine isn't finding the ncurses libraries that contain
> that function.