Re: configure problem

[Quentin Spencer]

Michael Schmid wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I try to compile octave 2.9.4 on ubuntu-linux ...
> but I get some errors in ./configure ...
>
> configure:25031: result: no
> configure:25050: WARNING: I couldn't find -ltermcap, -lterminfo, 
> -lncurses, -lcurses, or -ltermlib!
> configure:25066: checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline
> configure:25104: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c -lreadline  -ldl 
> -lm  >&5
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetnum'
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgoto'
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `BC'
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tputs'
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `PC'
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetent'
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `UP'
> /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:25110: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h.  */
>
> I don't know what is -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses ....
> I have installed the ncurses libraries .. libncurses.so.5 or so ...
> also installed is readline 4.3 and readline 5.xx


In addition to the libraries themselves you need to install the 
development headers associated with them. Since Ubuntu is basically 
Debian, I assume they all have -dev extensions, so you need to install 
termcap-dev, etc.

-Quentin



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