SAMtools install problem on curses.h

[doublealice]

I found several threads which mentioned same problem as mine. But none of their solutions help.

I downloaded the most recent version of samtools, 0.1.14 and tried to install it on my redhat enterprise server 6. The error message I've got was:

gcc -c -g -Wall -O2  -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_USE_KNETFILE -D_CURSES_LIB=1 -I. bam_tview.c -o bam_tview.o
bam_tview.c:5:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory
bam_tview.c:7:2: warning: #warning "_CURSES_LIB=1 but NCURSES_VERSION not defined; tview is NOT compiled"
bam_tview.c:418:2: warning: #warning "No curses library is available; tview is disabled."
make[1]: *** [bam_tview.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/polymerase/myapp/samtools'
make: *** [all-recur] Error 1

It was suggested that my system may not install ncurse-lib (http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthr...es.h#post13715). But I have that on my system:

# rpm -qa |grep curses
ncurses-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64
ncurses-base-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64
ncurses-libs-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64

The other one suggested to modify "LIBCURSES= -lcurses" in Makefile into "LIBCURSES= -lncurses". (http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6669). I did, but the problem still there.

The last thread I can find suggested to "add -I/usr/include/ncurses to CFLAGS in the samtools Makefile" (http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7391), but it was for installing samtools on cygwin.

Would you please help to see if anything else I can do for it? Thank you !

[doublealice]

yum install ncurses-devel

Installed ncurses-devel solved the problem.

But another error appears:

gcc -g -Wall -O2  -o samtools bam_tview.o bam_maqcns.o bam_plcmd.o sam_view.o bam_rmdup.o bam_rmdupse.o bam_mate.o bam_stat.o bam_color.o bamtk.o kaln.o bam2bcf.o bam2bcf_indel.o errmod.o sample.o cut_target.o phase.o -Lbcftools  libbam.a -lbcf -lcurses  -lm -lz
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [samtools] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/polymerase/myapp/samtools'
make: *** [all-recur] Error 1

Don't know how to fix on it.

[RDW]

zlib-devel?

[doublealice]

zlib-devel?

Yes, I installed zlib-devel, then it works. Thank you very much!