[erlang-questions] Build failing on Ubuntu 8.10

[Sverker Eriksson]

Francois De Serres wrote:
> I am trying to build the latest release on Ubuntu 8.10, using a --prefix=/home/... 
> ./configure fails with the error below.
:

> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
> configure: error: No curses library functions found
>   


There is a configure option --without-termcap, if you want to try 
without that feature. It will give you a more primitive shell interaction.

/Sverker, Erlang/OTP