[Gambas-user] Building Gambas on Solus

[Tobias Boege]

On Wed, 08 Apr 2020, Patrik Karlström wrote:
> I'm building Gambas on Solus and am in the process of sorting out the
> dependencies. [...]
> 
> My first question is in regard to ncurses.
> ncurses 6.1 is installed, and -devel too.
> 
> ls -l /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr  7 15:26 /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h ->
> ../ncurses.h
> 
> indicate a symlink, could that be the reason of the failure?
> Any hints on what to do in order to make it work?
> 
> pata at xps ~/Hämtningar/gambas-3.14.3/gb.ncurses $ ./reconf
> 
> [...]
>
> ||
> || Unable to met pkg-config requirement: ncurses
> || Unable to met pkg-config requirement: panel
> || gb.ncurses is disabled
> ||

The configure script for gb.ncurses uses pkg-config to determine if and
what version of ncurses and its panel extension are installed. What does

  $ pkg-config --modversion ncurses panel

give you?

Regards,
Tobias

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