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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 47ea2c658..423a123e0 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -328,6 +328,14 @@ use ncursesw may cause problems during building. If so, please report this to the developers at zsh-workers@sunsite.dk and attempt to recompile with --with-term-lib="tinfo termcap ncurses curses" (see below). +Note that use of ncurses requires the header ncurses.h, so this +needs to be in the include path. configure will not search for +ncurses or ncursesw unless this is the case. If you have installed +ncurses.h in a non-standard place you may need to pass +CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include (or wherever the header is found) to +configure. Similarly, you may need to pass LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib +(or wherever) in order to find the library. + On some systems a suitable development package with a name such as curses-devel or ncurses-devel needs to be installed before zsh can be compiled. This is likely to be contained on any installation media, |