F8 - Building vim failure: tgetent() not found

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:42 AM -0800 11/28/07, Richard Emberson wrote:
>On newly installed fedora 8, trying to build vim from the svn
>head. Running the configure script produced:
>
>checking for stack_t... (cached) yes
>checking whether stack_t has an ss_base field... no
>checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection
>checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) yes
>ncurses library is not usable
>checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
>checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
>checking for tgetent in -lcurses... yes
>curses library is not usable
>no terminal library found
>checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
>       You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
>       Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.
>
>
>With earlier fedora installs, the vim configure script just
>worked.
>Any pointers as to what I might have forgotten to install.

ncurses-devel?
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