emacs installation fails

[sbp]

On a fresh Debian jessie/sid, I followed the instructions to install Linuxbrew in the README.md at e552fa3.

I then tried to install emacs using Linuxbrew, but emacs ./configure failed with this message:

The following libraries were tried (in order):
  libtinfo, libncurses, libterminfo, libtermcap, libcurses
Please try installing whichever of these libraries is most appropriate
for your system, together with its header files.

This is fine if you have root/sudo access, but the instruction is not clear if you want to install emacs with user privileges only.

I tried this:

$ brew install homebrew/dupes/ncurses

But unfortunately that fails too:

../lib/libformw.so: undefined reference to `copywin'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [cardfile] Error 1

System info:

sbp@debian:~$ uname -mrs
Linux 3.11-2-686-pae i686
sbp@debian:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
jessie/sid

[sjackman]

Hi, Sean. Mac OS comes with certain basic packages installed, such as ncurses, and Linuxbrew also assumes those packages are installed. So, you will need root access to install libncurses5-dev.

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

It's possible that you could use homebrew/dupes/ncurses to satisfy the dependency. If you get it to work, I'd be interested in hearing back from you.

brew install homebrew/dupes/ncurses
brew link --force ncurses

Cheers,
Shaun