I recently did a apt-get dist-upgrade on Jan 2nd, which updated ncurses to version 5.0. I didn't notice any problems at first, but I went to build a custom version of Nethack and noticed that it failed to compile with curses errors. In examining the directorys, I found the following. During the update to curses5 all these links were changed in my /usr/include directory.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 2 20:54 curses.h -> ../curses.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 2 20:54 eti.h -> ../eti.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 2 20:54 form.h -> ../form.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 2 20:54 menu.h -> ../menu.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 2 20:54 ncurses.h -> ../ncurses.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 2 20:54 panel.h -> ../panel.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 2 20:54 term.h -> ../term.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 2 20:54 termcap.h -> ../termcap.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 2 20:54 unctrl.h -> ../unctrl.h All of these are broken symlinks, and with a little furthur testing I have confirmed that no program that requires curses will now build sucessfully on my potato system. Has anyone else ran into this problem, and is there a suggested fix? With so many programs using curses now days, this seems to be a serious problem. Any suggests would be most appreciated. Todd
