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[[maude-help] ] Maude 3.2.2 requires libcurses

From: Hans Lub <hanslub42 AT gmail.com>
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Subject: [[maude-help] ] Maude 3.2.2 requires libcurses
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 11:03:25 +0100
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The newest Maude release (3.2.2) still links with libcurses (if configured with '--with-tecla', which is what my distribution (Gentoo) does). 
This causes a linker error, as libcurses has been obsolete on Gentoo (and I suspect quite on a number of other systems or distributions as well)

Just changing the one single occurrence of "-lcurses" in configure.ac to "-ltinfo" makes the thing compile and run (I suspect "-lncurses" would work as well)

To cater for systems that don't have libtinfo one could add a simple test in configure.ac (search for lintinfo, then for libncurses, then for libcurses, then give up)

regards

Hans

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[[maude-help] ] Maude 3.2.2 requires libcurses, Hans Lub, 03/18/2023