terminfo location???

I am now trying to compile alpine 1.10 on suse linux 11.0.

The configure keep returning the error that it could not find
"Terminfo/termcap" & stops.

I included "/usr/share/terminfo" in the path & still get the
same error; same with placing "/usr/share".

Checked the configure file & cannot determine where alpine is
trying to get the terminfo/termcap....

Have run out of ideas. Can get around the problem of the
ms exchange problem on my secondary account via webmail; but
it is an itch that wants to be scratched.

On Jun 28, 5:58*pm, nobody <annonym...@none.com> wrote:
> I am now trying to compile alpine 1.10 on suse linux 11.0.
>
> The configure keep returning the error that it could not find
> "Terminfo/termcap" & stops.
>
> I included "/usr/share/terminfo" in the path & still get the
> same error; same with placing "/usr/share".
>
> Checked the configure file & cannot determine where alpine is
> trying to get the terminfo/termcap....
>
> Have run out of ideas. *Can get around the problem of the
> ms exchange problem on my secondary account via webmail; but
> it is an itch that wants to be scratched.

Putting it in $PATH will not help. Changing $TERMINFO environment
variable may help.

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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, nobody wrote:

> I am now trying to compile alpine 1.10 on suse linux 11.0.

My experience was with alpine-1.00 and suse 9.2

> The configure keep returning the error that it could not find
> "Terminfo/termcap" & stops.

For me the error was NOT caused by a missing termcap file.
/etc/termcap exists and so /usr/share/terminfo/

it looks like configure wants a *library* termcap
but libtermcap.a libtermcap.so on suse 9.2 exist in /usr/lib/termcap
not in /usr/lib ... which is apparently where configure is looking

I created a soft-link

cd /usr/lib
ln -s libtermcap.so.2 libtermcap.so

and configure worked (your version number might be different)

But I thought alpine WAS included in suse 11 (so a colleague said to me)

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On 2008-07-02, LC's No-Spam Newsreading account <nospam@mi.iasf.cnr.it> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, nobody wrote:
>
>> I am now trying to compile alpine 1.10 on suse linux 11.0.
>
> My experience was with alpine-1.00 and suse 9.2
>
>> The configure keep returning the error that it could not find
>> "Terminfo/termcap" & stops.
>
> For me the error was NOT caused by a missing termcap file.
> /etc/termcap exists and so /usr/share/terminfo/
>
> it looks like configure wants a *library* termcap
> but libtermcap.a libtermcap.so on suse 9.2 exist in /usr/lib/termcap
> not in /usr/lib ... which is apparently where configure is looking
>
> I created a soft-link
>
> cd /usr/lib
> ln -s libtermcap.so.2 libtermcap.so
>
> and configure worked (your version number might be different)
>
> But I thought alpine WAS included in suse 11 (so a colleague said to me)
>

Fabulous! Thanks! I had tried using a "LIBPATH" for the environment & that
didn't work; looks like some software look for libs differently.

My termcap dir is in lib64 (running the 64-bit); found that a soft link
to the directory didn't work but a direct link to libtermcap.so in the
lib64/termcap/libtermcap.so does work.

Yes suse 11 does have alpine 1.10 BUT the default is compiles with the
default of kerborus; kerborus is causing my problem in getting mail from
the school which is using m$ exchange which probably is kerborus enabled.

PC-alpine works without the kerborus problem; which means it probably
was compiled without kerborus. I was getting a "run kinit against...."
which is the school webmail website; of course, I could have set my
school profile to forward mail, which I was about to do before your
response for help.

Gratefully thanks again.