Re: [sup-talk] Errors installing ncursesw

[William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>]

Reformatted excerpts from Shadowfirebird's message of 2010-11-10:
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for locale.h... yes
> checking for ncurses.h... yes
> checking for wmove() in -lncursesw... no
> checking for wmove() in -lpdcurses... no
> *** extconf.rb failed ***
> Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
> details.  You may need configuration options.
> <<<<
> 
> Can anyone tell me where mkmf.log will be?  Not in the directory where
> I ran gem install.

I'm not sure where mkmf.log is (I think newer versions of Rubygems are
better about telling you) but the above messages are the clue that you
need to apt-get install libncursesw-dev or something like it.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
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