Debian bug report logs - #1331 terminfo(3ncurses) says , but nonexistent Package: ncurses-developer ; Reported by: Ian Jackson ; 54 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Thu Sep 7 05:16:18 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sqfsQ-000EskA; Thu, 7 Sep 95 05:16 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08034 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Thu, 7 Sep 1995 05:16:03 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sqfsH-000C0ZA; Thu, 7 Sep 95 13:16 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 6 Sep 95 23:19 BST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 23:19 BST From: Ian Jackson To: Debian bugs submission address Subject: terminfo(3ncurses) says , but nonexistent Precedence: air-mail Package: ncurses-developer Version: 1.9.3-1 >From terminfo(3ncurses): SYNOPSIS #include #include However, chiark:~> find /usr/include -name term.h -ls 27761 30 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30664 Jul 21 05:23 /usr/include/ncurses/term.h 4082 29 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28894 Jan 21 1995 /usr/include/ncurses-broken/term.h chiark:~> (ncurses-broken is not relevant here.) The manpage for ncurses(3ncurses) doesn't say that you have to use -I/usr/include/ncurses (and indeed, one should not need to). I suggest the addition of a symlink: root@chiark:~> cd /usr/include/ root@chiark:include> ln -s ncurses/term.h . root@chiark:include> Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to Ian Jackson : New bug report received and forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Report forwarded to debian-devel@pixar.com : Bug#1331 ; Package ncurses-developer . Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov