xfce4-terminal .. make error

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Johannes Zellner wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm a newbie with the autoconf,automake ... but i had an error during 
> make in xfce4-terminal
> "cannot find -lncurses"
> ./configure didn't makes an error.
> After installing the ncurses-devel-libs make compiles fine.
> Shouldn't this error handled by ./configure ?

no, this is a problem with your system.  how is the configure script 
supposed to know how to get certain files installed on your particular 
distro?  and what if you aren't using linux?  how is it supposed to know 
then?

    -brian