[CMake] installation problem

[Bill Hoffman]

On 5/2/2010 5:53 PM, Zhuang Song wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Thank you for pointing this out. I did try several times to install
> CMake. When I started with a clean build/source tree, I got a lot of
> other errors in bootstrap.  I tried to attach the output of bootstrap with error
> messages, but it was hold by the maillist moderator because the file
> size exceeded
> the limit. Anyway, the final message is: "Curses libraries were not found.
> Curses GUI for CMake will not be built."
>

So, you don't have the curses developer package installed.  You need to 
have the curses header files installed.  Have you tried just using the 
linux binary from www.cmake.org?

> My system is AMD x86-64, GNU/Linux 2.6.9. When I compile from the
> source code of CMake, I was wondering if the source code of CMake for
> Linux (version 2.8.1) has any issue with 64 bit Linux system.
>
No no issues, it is tested/built on systems like that every day.

You just don't have the curses dev package installed correctly or even 
at all.

-Bill