[GRASS-user] Re: updating from GRASS from svn Unable to locate curses includes

[Hamish]

maning sambale
> > I have installed grass63 fro les-ejk repo on a gutsy. 
> > I then checkout from svn the releasebranch_6_3 rev. 31664
> >
> > Know doing:
> > ./configure ...
> >
> > I get this error:
> > Unable to locate curses includes.
...
> the config.log says:
> 
> configure:5411: checking whether to use Curses
> configure:5430: checking for curses.h
> configure:5438: gcc -E   conftest.c >/dev/null
> 2>conftest.out
> configure:5434:20: error: curses.h: No such file or
> directory
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 5433 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> #include <curses.h>

you are missing the curses -dev package:

debian$ apt-file search include/curses.h
libncurses5-dev: usr/include/curses.h


more generally you will need all the "Build-depends" packages:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/trunk/debian/control?op=file


Hamish