Re: lua won't build

[Larry Wyble <llwyble@...>]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:01:04 -0400
Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:

> It was thus said that the Great Larry Wyble once stated:
> > I'll be damned.  lol
> > How could you tell from that error that I needed to call -lncurses?

8<  snip
 
>   From the following output you included in your initial email:
>
>   That means that there's either a missing library during the linking
> stage. A "man tputs" or Google "tputs" would reveal it's a curses
> library call. With enough experience you know that you need
> "-lcurses".  If you don't have the experience, then a few more Google
> searches would give you the answer (I think).
> 
>   -spc
 
I'll remember that. Thanks