[fpc-pascal]Missing libpanel.a Library after a SuSE 7.1 Update

[Stefan Becker]

Thank-you for all your input!

> > I Updated my Linux Server on the weekend (from SuSE 7.0 --> 7.1)

> That might not work.

yep! it didn't work.  I countn't find the libpanel.a library anywhere
in the SuSE 7.1 packages.  You would think that the static library would
be in the ncurses package.

solution:
I downloaded the ncurses project from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/
- tar -x
- ./configure
- make
- make install

and the libraries are okay again!

> - Check which packages depend on it. If none, kill panel, and
> recompile from
> source, either from TGZ, or, better, from SRPM, and rebuild, and copy the
> generated .a by hand?)

That what was needed

>
> - kick SUSE.
>

So far I haven't had to much problems with "SuSe" Linux. What "Linux"
version
would YOU suggest?