openSUSE 11.1 - curses problem [solved]

[Blokker_1999]

the final configure of MTA fails because it can't find curses even though you have installed ncurses-devel .

checking for curl-config... /usr/bin/curl-config

checking for curl >= 7... yes

checking CURL_CFLAGS...

checking CURL_LIBS... -lcurl

checking uname -m for detecting host operating system architecture... x86 oh noes i ran out of address space

checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no

checking for deflate in -lz... yes

checking for stdscr in -lcurses... no

configure: error: can't find curses

For some reason the configure script can not find the files needed from the package system. The solution is compiling and installing curses from source. You can find it at http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.7.tar.gz

Packages you can install via yast or zypper : readline-devel, libcurl-devel, sqlite3-devel and pcre-devel .