ncurses not found when trying to build vim

Question

I am trying to build vim in my user dir after recently upgraded to Fedora 23

I have ncurses and ncurses-devel

[root@statquant-laptop lib]# dnf instal         


        

Answer 1

You apparently do not have the development package for ncurses installed. On Fedora23, that would be ncurses-devel, e.g., ncurses-devel-5.9-21.20150214.fc23.x86_64

Without that, you have only the runtime libraries (which are required).

Once you have that, the configuration for vim 7.4 would show something like this:

checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... yes
checking whether we talk terminfo... yes
checking what tgetent() returns for an unknown terminal... zero
checking whether termcap.h contains ospeed... yes
checking whether termcap.h contains UP, BC and PC... yes
checking whether tputs() uses outfuntype... no

Further reading:

• how to install ncurses library in fedora?
• RPM resource ncurses-devel