Re: Cross-compilation shows>error: no termcap library found, why?

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 06/07/2013 10:52 AM, Francisco Cuesta wrote:
> But now I have another doubt, if I want to crooscompile the gdb
> "client" which is going to connect to the gdbserver, how can I do it?
> Then, I will have to crosscompile the whole gdb suite right?

Assuming gdb will run on your host non-ARM machine, no.

Here's the chapter everyone building cross tools should read (do
click the right arrow):

  http://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_258.html

And also, simplified from:

  http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/autoconf/canonical.html

"
 When using autoconf, there are three system definitions (or machine definitions)
 that are used to identify the “actors” in the build process; (...) These three definitions are:

host

    The system that is going to run the software once it is built. Once the software
    has been built, it will execute on this particular system.

build

    The system where the build process is being executed. For most uses this
    would be the same as the host system, but in case of cross-compilation
    the two obviously differ.

target

    The system against which the software being built will run on. This only exists, or rather
    has a meaning, when the software being built may interact specifically with a
    system that differs from the one it's being executed on (our host). This is the case
    for compilers, debuggers, profilers and analyzers and other tools in general.
"

So configure GDB with --target=arm-mv5sft-linux-gnueabi,
and GDBserver with --host=arm-mv5sft-linux-gnueabi.

> 
> regards!
> 
> 2013/6/6 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>:
>> It sounds like you're running the top level's configure
>> instead of gdbserver's.  If you just want to build
>> gdbserver, run the configure in gdb/gdbserver/.
>>
>> --
>> Pedro Alves
>>


-- 
Pedro Alves