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  1. Bug #7709
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 7709

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In , Thomas Dickey (dickey) wrote : Re: Bug#269366: screen: ftbfs [sparc] no tgetent - no screen

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:14:36AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Thomas Dickey <email address hidden> [2004-09-01 08:20]:
> > just for the record, libncursesw also provides tgetent (the cited
> > log doesn't show enough detail to say whether it is related).
>
> It looks like some build dependency is missing. When I build the
> package in a normal system, it works and I get:

Probably the configure script is looking only in libtermcap and libcurses.
Generally I work around things like that by presetting $LIBS, e.g.,

 export LIBS="-lncursesw"

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