From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 1999-01-05T17:21:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00166] Re: Makefiles and -lcurses

Hi.

In message "[ruby-talk:00165] Makefiles and -lcurses"
    on 99/01/05, Julian Fondren <julian@imaji.net> writes:

|I want to compile the curses extension with -locurses rather than
|-lcurses, so I change ext/Makefile a bit to have -locurses instead. After
|this I `make clean', and then `make'
|
|It compiles with -lcurses. Why? There were no mentions of a Makefile
|modification, and if I grep around a bit there is no -lcurses needed to be
|changed. The Makefile in ext/Makefile has -lcurses where I had seconds
|earlier put -locurses. Wierd, and a little annoying, how can I force it to
|compile with -locurses?

Makefiles are automatically generated in the compilation process.
Modify extconf.rb in the directory, like:

  have_library("curses", "initscr")

into

  have_library("ocurses", "initscr")

Hope this helps.
                                                matz.