R-beta: compiling R with libncurses on SuSE Linux

[Albrecht Gebhardt]

When I tried to compile R on a S.u.S.E-4.4 linux box, I ended up with
unresolved symbols from libtermcap. So I decided to use the newer libncurses.

Applying the following patch to configure.in and creating a new
configure script with "autoconf  configure.in > configure" solved my problems.

--- configure.in.orig   Tue May  6 15:05:20 1997
+++ configure.in        Tue May  6 15:05:23 1997
@@ -142,13 +142,17 @@
 
 #  LIBRARIES
 #
-#  This is set up so we only get one of one of -ltermcap and -ltermlib
+#  This is set up so we only get one of one of -lncurses -ltermcap and -ltermlib
 
 AC_CHECK_LIB(m, sin)
+AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, main)
+if test -z "HAVE_LIBNCURSES"
+then
 AC_CHECK_LIB(termcap, main)
 if test -z "HAVE_LIBTERMCAP"
 then
 AC_CHECK_LIB(termlib, main)
+fi
 fi
 AC_CHECK_LIB(readline, main)
 AC_CHECK_LIB(dl, dlopen)


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Albrecht Gebhardt                   email   : albrecht.gebhardt at uni-klu.ac.at
Institut fuer Mathematik            Tel.    : (++43 463) 2700/837
Universitaet Klagenfurt             Fax     : (++43 463) 2700/834
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