Re: why no ncurses.h file?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:23:39PM -0500, Chris McHugh wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am trying to build xfree86 4.2 from source and the install fails with
> the error ncurses.h no file found. Now, I have ncurses 5.2 (it came with
> Mandrake 8.1) and have reinstalled it and the libs just in case, but I
> still do not have ncurses.h or curses.h on my system. What am I doing
> wrong? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

There are generally two types of packages made for libraries:
        runtime and
        development

The runtime packages don't include header files (or static libraries).

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