Re: tlug: Debian 2 and j-pine

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On 5 Nov 1998, Totoro wrote:

> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:
> 
> >>>>> "Totoro" == Totoro  <riley@example.com> writes:
>     Totoro> I'm puttering around with Debian lately, and can't get
>     Totoro> j-pine to compile. Pine and Pico both want to link
>     Totoro> termcap, however, Debian is supposed to be using
>     Totoro> terminfo. With the old termcap-compat in, the errors
>     Totoro> continue. I've already tried changing the makefiles on
>     Totoro> Pine and Pico to not use termcap, but it won't run.
> 
>     Stephen> As far as I know, although terminfo is preferred to
>     Stephen> termcap for new applications, legacy applications should
>     Stephen> compile with termcap support.
> 
> The Pine and Pico makefiles are calling for -ltermcap in the libs
> section. From what Scott mentioned about termcap/libtermcap, what
> is it actually looking for here?

I get the impression from Chris that you can just replace -ltermcap with
-lncurses, but I haven't tried that yet.  I'm going to, today.

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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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