linking with curses

[Michail Vidiassov]

Dear Thomas,

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > How would the ideal world without workarounds for other workarounds for
> > ancient bugs look like?
>
> #include <curses.h>
>
> -lcurses
>
> (but the non-ideal world has different implementations and versions of curses)

In that view, may be "must" is a too strong word in the following
quote from ncurses(3)

  A program using these  routines  must  be  linked  with  the  -lncurses
  option,  or  (if  it  has  been  generated)  with the debugging library
  -lncurses_g.  (Your system integrator may  also  have  installed  these
  libraries  under  the  names  -lcurses  and -lcurses_g.)

Nowdays when ncurses is more likely to be the only library in the system
than not, -lncurses instead -lcurses just leads away from the one true 
path of "The Single UNIX Specification"  :)

     Sincerely, Michail