compile of 9.8 failed

[joerg van den hoff]

happy long time vile user here: I have used vile for a long time under OSX and compiles always "just 
worked".

now, I have tried to compile it under OpenSuse linux on an old laptop I have started playing around 
with, but no luck. I get lot's of

undefined reference to `tputs'

and similar errors (referring to `tgoto', `tgetent', `tgetflag', `tgenum' etc.) and compile fails. 
the executed `./configure' run did not show any obvious problems.

since I am a) totally new to OpenSuse and b) not into C programming I am at a loss where to look to 
find out which library or header file is missing (which I guess is the issue here?). I guessed at 
"termcap" and installed that package but that didn't help.

any advice would be appreciated :).

thx,
joerg