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[julian AT openit.de (Julian v. Bock)]

Hi

>>>>> "ES" == Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> writes:

ES> Correct, this is a "problem" with the new ncurses (5.3) spell, or
ES> rather, the new spell provides the proper ncurses.h, but gcc also
ES> provides it's own ncurses.h, which does not allow some programs to
ES> compile against it, so you need to remove the gcc supplied
ES> ncurses.h as Joel says above.  (Did I get the logic right?)

Almost ;)

gcc does not come with its own ncurses.h, but it creates its own
version at compile time. If ncurses is updated afterwards the gcc
version causes conflicts since it is not updated.

Julian