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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> After (or also before) renaming libc6 or libm6 I attempted to 
> compile playmidi in BL3 and got two pages of error messages 
> relating to io_ncurses.c and line numbers and things that are 
> undeclared or implicitly undeclared.
> 
> I have libncurses 1.9.9 from SW4.0 and some symlinks.

Is this the development version?

> libncurses.so is a symlink to 1.9.9.
> 
> I have also libncurses.so.3 symlinks which points to so.3.4 which 
> points to 1.9.9.  Mutt (from Christof) for some reason needs 'so.3 
> ' rather than so.  Grep is very cpu intensive (99.2%).
> 
> Libncurses is used to display by playmidi  - maybe it can be 
> compiled to use svgalib instead?

Does configure allow you to use the --without-ncurses or --without-curses
options?

> Do Stephen with a 'ph'

Maybe we should use last names to differentiate?

> or David want to take a look at playmidi?

Sometime.

> But I think it may not work with a sound card that is not AWE32.

It works with any /dev/sequencer.

> I made a log file (make > log) and it only seems to have gotten as 
> far as io_ncurses.c -o io_ncurses.o without making the latter.
> 
> There is something about /usr/include/ncurses in the log file.  I 
> don't have /usr/include/ncurses.  Or /usr/lib/oss/include/sys.  And 
> I did not insmod the sound modules here - do I need to?  (I don't 
> have Christof;s
> package installed here).

You don't need modules inserted just to build. Try getting the
_development_ ncurses package from slakware/dsomething/ncurses.tgz,
or build without ncurses.

David

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