Got the ncurses development libs loaded - intersting if I do a 32-bit version all works as it should, but when I do a ./BUILDcompile-pentium64-max I start seeing the -lz error. I feel like this is a library malfunction.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@knielsen-hq.org> wrote:
Don Kehn <dekehn@gmail.com> writes:

> display.c:(.text+0x282): undefined reference to `tputs'

This sounds like you are missing curses development libraries.

On my machine (Ubuntu Hardy), I think they are in the package libncurses5-dev.

Hopefully this will get you one step further.

(Btw, on Ubuntu/Debian, a quick shortcut to get all required dependencies
installed is the following:

   sudo apt-get build-dep mysql-server

Maybe your system has something similar).

 - Kristian.