Comment 1 for bug 1050341

This really appears to be more of a question than a bug report, so I am going to convert it into a question.

Looking at the output from configure, it appears that you need to install the package: libtinfo-dev

If you scroll down a bit in http://wiki.videolan.org/UnixCompile under the heading "The preferred method", there is a command:

sudo apt-get build-dep vlc

Which if you have the source repositories enabled (in software-properties-gtk make sure the Source Code box is ticked) should get you most of the libraries required to compile VLC.

Hope that helps.