Re: tlug: Debian 2 and j-pine

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Totoro wrote:

> I'm puttering around with Debian lately, and can't get j-pine to
> compile. Pine and Pico both want to link termcap, however, Debian
> is supposed to be using terminfo. With the old termcap-compat in,
> the errors continue. I've already tried changing the makefiles on
> Pine and Pico to not use termcap, but it won't run.
> 
> Any Debian folks out there know how to get this going?

IIRC, libtermcap is not the same as 'termcap'.  the termcap library is
needed for ... quite a few things, actually.  bash uses it, at least on
some systems (if you compile bash from source directly, it does).  

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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