Ncurses not found - embedded linux

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Fri Mar 7 02:35:39 EST 2008


blaine wrote:

>> > I hope this is trivial, and I apologize ahead of time if so.  Would
>> > this perhaps be a compilation issue? Something we have to turn on in
>> > the python compile?
>>
>> Usually, you need not only the libraries but also the headers at
>> compilation time. Most probably these were missing.
>>
>> Diez
> 
> Thank you for our response.  Do you mean that the ncurses header
> should be in /usr/include upon compilation of python?  Will python
> automatically pick up on these headers, or would I need to change
> compilation options? Thanks! -Blaine

Just rerun the ./configure script -- it should detect the presence of the
required header file automatically. If all went well you'll see "yes" three
times:

$ sudo aptitude install ncurses-dev
[...]
$ ./configure > tmp.txt
[...]
$ grep ncurses tmp.txt
checking ncurses.h usability... yes
checking ncurses.h presence... yes
checking for ncurses.h... yes


Peter



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