Can't configure gdb-5.3 for sparc64-linux: Could not find a term library

[Christian Jönsson]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:14:04PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Christian Jönsson <c.christian.joensson@telia.com> writes:
> 
> > > checking compiler warning flags...  -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized
> > > checking for cygwin... no
> > > 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 /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/branch/objdir-gdb-5.3/gdb failed, exiting.
> 
> Note the "(cached)" in the above output.  What happens if you remove
> the toplevel config.cache and reconfigure in the gdb subdir
> (./config.status --recheck)?  If that doesn't solve the problem,
> please post the output of the config.log file in the gdb subdirectory.

well, same thing, attached is the config.log

> > > 
> > > but ncurses and termcap is installed...
> > > 
> > > ncurses-5.2-26
> > > ncurses-devel-5.2-26
> > > libtermcap-2.0.8-28
> > > libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-28
> > > termcap-11.0.1-10
> > > 
> > 
> > well, not much response here, is there something obvious I might have missed reading< perhaps?
> > 
> > is it perhaps so that if I want a gdb for sparc64-linux, I'll have to
> > have more than just binutils and gcc for sparc64-linux, such as
> > ncurses and/or termcap?
> 
> I'm not familiar with sparc64-linux, but if you want to build a native
> sparc64-linux GDB, you'll need the 64-bit versions of the libs needed
> by GDB I suppose.

OK, then I'll need ncurses for sparc64-linux, right?

Cheers,

/ChJ
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