make fails for ncurses5

[wolfgangsz]

Hi all,

I recently installed monodevelop on my debian etch box, compiled from source and started to use it. Great. However, since then I always get this message when I use the "less" command:

less: Symbol `ospeed' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

So I do some googling and some folks are telling me I need to rebuild my ncurses libraries. No probs, I think, we can handle this. Download the sources, run configure, then run make. Configure runs fine, I get nice summary at the end and all looks OK. But make fails. Here are the last couple of lines:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.5/c++'
cd ../objects; -I../c++ -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -c ../c++/cursesf.cc
/bin/sh: -I../c++: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [../objects/cursesf.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ncurses/ncurses-5.5/c++'
make: *** [all] Error 2

So far this seems to be more of a nuisance than anything else, but I really would like to understand it (and get rid of the strange error message regarding ospeed). So any help would be appreciated.

regards
Wolfgang

[jledhead]

It looks like your missing c++, do you have libstdc++ installed?

#dpkg -l | grep libstdc++

[wolfgangsz]

output for dpkg -l | grep libstdc++ is:
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Do I need the sources for this?

[jledhead]

possibly, it couldn't hurt