Re: CLI todo list management - devtodo

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:15:41AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> David J Patrick wrote:
> >Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> >
> >
> >>You don't have curses or ncurses installed?
> >
> >
> >I have a whack of curses, ana ncurses, packages on board, but with the
> >help of synaptic, I found that libcurses-perl was available, but not
> >installed, so I installed it.
> 
> I don't think that one matters here.
> 
> >>also 'terminfo' package (how ever you handle 'packages')
> >
> >
> >so I installed "libggi-target-terminfo" (the only package matching
> >"terminfo", I could find)
> 
> nor that one.
> 
> >after installing those two, and trying "make" again;
> >djp <at> otter:~/tmp/devtodo-0.1.18 $ make
> >make  all-recursive
> >make[1]: Entering directory `/home/djp/tmp/devtodo-0.1.18'
> >Making all in util
> >make[2]: Entering directory `/home/djp/tmp/devtodo-0.1.18/util'
> >make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> >make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/djp/tmp/devtodo-0.1.18/util'
> >Making all in src
> >make[2]: Entering directory `/home/djp/tmp/devtodo-0.1.18/src'
> >if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../util  -DNDEBUG  -g -O2 -MT
> >todoterm.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/todoterm.Tpo" -c -o todoterm.o todoterm.cc; \
> >then mv -f ".deps/todoterm.Tpo" ".deps/todoterm.Po"; else rm -f
> >".deps/todoterm.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
> >todoterm.cc:8:20: curses.h: No such file or directory
> >todoterm.cc:9:18: term.h: No such file or directory
> >todoterm.cc: In function `int getWidth()':
> >todoterm.cc:24: error: `tgetent' undeclared (first use this function)
> >todoterm.cc:24: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> >for
> >   each function it appears in.)
> >todoterm.cc:31: error: `tgetnum' undeclared (first use this function)
> >make[2]: *** [todoterm.o] Error 1
> >make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/djp/tmp/devtodo-0.1.18/src'
> >make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/djp/tmp/devtodo-0.1.18'
> >make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> same errors.  All I can conclude is that g++ cannot find curses
> (or ncurses) and terminfo package files.  Sorry I can't
> help more.
> 
> >>(Is this Linux or other (which)?  what distro?)
> >
> >yes, ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog, to be specific !
> 

I'm not on my Ubuntu box at the moment but look for a package called
something like libncurses5-dev. That's what it's called on the Debian
box I'm in front of right now.

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