Restarting a build and termcap

[Andy Johnson]

[--SNIP--]
> > It's dying before it ever gets to ncurses.  If ncurses does
> > provide termcap, then perhaps it should be built before gdb.
> 
> What gdb build is failing: "cross" or "native"?
> 
> If cross, then you are missing termcap on your system. It's up to you
> to
> install it.

Cross, but I have a /usr/include/termcap.h and /usr/lib64/libtermcap.so
on my system, both from the ncurses-devel-5.6 package (FC 10).  What
else could it be looking for?

Regarding the restart problem, if I select "gzip saved states" then
the build crashes at the end of the "Extracting and patching" step
with a tar error:  ./target/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/state/libc_check_config/prefix_dir.tar.gz: file changed as we read it, followed by Build failed in step '<none>'.

If I don't gzip then it fills up the drive and then dies.

Any hints on how to get around this?

Andy