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Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net> writes:

> In trying to build emacs (9.2-stable) (ports svn as of this morning, but
> one from a few weeks ago does this too) I get the following:
>
> checking for posix_openpt... yes
> checking for library containing tputs... no
> configure: error: The required function `tputs' was not found in any library.
> The following libraries were tried (in order):
>   libtinfo, libncurses, libterminfo, libtermcap, libcurses
> Please try installing whichever of these libraries is most appropriate
> for your system, together with its header files.
> For example, a libncurses-dev(el) or similar package.

What does config.log say?