spawngrid/kerl — Issue #17: No curses library functions found
Author: bryanhunter
Created: 2011-11-30 17:26:45+00:00
State: open

From a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.10 kerl failed to build R14B04. The build log shows:
configure: error: No curses library functions found
configure: error: /bin/bash '/home/bryanhunter/.kerl/builds/r14b04/otp_src_R14B04/erts/configure' failed for erts

I did a "sudo apt-get update" and tried to build with kerl again and it failed in the same way.

I then did a "sudo apt-get -y install libncurses5-dev". I tried again after that, and everything builds successfully.

Let me know if you need more info (I have a VM snapshot where I can reproduce the problem). Next week I can poke around in kerl. If I'm not too out of my depth and I manage to fix it, I'll send you a pull request.