GDB configure problem

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Mon Sep 17 21:39:00 GMT 2001


> hi,
> i am facing some problem while running configure script before building.
> 
> i got the following error message,
> 
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
> configure: error: Could not find a term library
> Configure in /root/gdb-5.0/gdb failed, exiting.
> 
> since you had faced the same problem, could you please help me in solving
> this proble.
> i am working on intel platform, redhat linux -7.1, kernel 2.4.2. the ncurses
> is already installed on my machine.


Just fyi, the first thing to do is grab a more recent GDB (see 
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/download/ ) to see if the problem sill 
occures.

Andrew




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