Subject: Re: gcc can't find termcap library

From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 21:32:17 -0400

Hi Danny--
In what are by now prehistoric times you said:
> I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed,
> complaining that it couldn't find -ltermcap.

Bill Mitchell bequeathed to me the kermit package, and building a new one
is on my list of todo's.  I'm hoping I get organized to do this within a 
couple of weeks, and your note provides further motivation.  Meantime, be 
aware that Bill already worried about this problem, and his fixes are in 
the sources he left me.  If you want them before I get the package built, 
let me know and I'll send them to you.

Sorry I a) didn't see your note sooner, and b) haven't gotten a new
package out yet.  

Susan Kleinmann

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From: "REMF" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 10:21:59 -0700

Hello,

Actually this termcap thing is beginning to get annoying.  There are at
least two other packages I want to add that are not supported by anyone
yet.  The most important being scilab, but it won't compile the way debian
has changed termcaps.  I must have spent a day trying to redo the makefile
and trying to create links to give the illusion that the libtermcaps were
there, but gave up trying.  I added the other package that is supposed to
allow debian users to compile these types of packages and that didn't work
either.  Is there anyway to get around this, or do I just need to go to Red
Hat or something?  Is whatever improvement that is supposed to be gained by
this termcap change worth the hassle of having to fight to get all these
undebianized packages to work?

Craig