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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: about  -lcurses
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2018 20:55:19 -0500
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To: guy fleury <hoonandon@gmail.com>
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Hello,

guy fleury <hoonandon@gmail.com> writes:

> hi all,
>
> i try to package a editor "nice editor":
> i got this error: 
>      
>     ld: cannot find -lcurses
>
> on debian it works because -lcurses is a symlink to -lncurses(if i am
> not wrong) 
>
> is there a solution without make a patch to the makifile?

If -lncurses would be enough, then I believe the simplest solution would
be to add a build phase and use a substitute* call to patch the
Makefile. You'll find plenty of examples of similar things in the
packages sources.

HTH!

Maxim