can't compile xemacs21.5.28

[Uwe Brauer]

   >> >> 
   >> >> *** PANIC *** The C compiler can no longer build working executables.
   >> 

   > Anyway, this looks like a bug in our configure script, but it will
   > take some time for me to find and fix it, and I don't know that
   > anybody else will get to it more quickly.  As a workaround, I gather
   > you're using a Debian derivative.  There is probably a "termcap"
   > package (the modern alternative is terminfo).  If you install that
   > this problem will go away.  It might be called "termcap-dev" or
   > "termcap-compat" or some such.  (These packages are just a small
   > wrapper around the terminfo library.)  It might also be part of the
   > ncurses family of packages on some distros, IIRC.

Ok, it is libncures-dev which is missing in, as you correctly presumed,
(K)ubuntu 8.04

thanks

Uwe