[tlbuild] compilation problem: curses

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 01:02, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Mojca
>
> On So, 14 Aug 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Would it make sense to list the dependency on
>> http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/README?
>
> What do you mean? Mentioning that "if you are on Debian/Ubuntu you need
> to install libncurses5-dev" or something else?

In the first place, mention the dependency. But if Karl wants to get
rid of it, that is another story.

> Yes, we can mention that you need the curses header files, but not
> the package names for distributions (all).

I would say that it might be helpful to mention at least the most
common cases, but I agree that this could become both unmaintanable
and incomplete.

Mojca