Re: Error in configure

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-04-26T13:21:16Z

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:12:32AM +0200, JosÃ© Miguel wrote:
> El Lunes, 25 de Abril de 2005 20:56, Daniel Jacobowitz escribiÃ³:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:50:23PM +0200, JosÃ© Miguel wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I'm trying to compile gdb 5.2.1, but I get an error in configure process:
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > I run a Debian Sarge and I've got installed the libncurses5 package, so
> > > I'm a bit lost. What happens then?
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> >
> > Try libncurses5-dev, or "apt-get build-dep gdb".
>
> It doesn't work. I can't understand, because I've got installed the
> libncurses5 library in /lib and /usr/lib.
>
> I can find out the definition of tgetent. It is provided by ncursesw (wide
> character support) package. Why configure cannot?
>
> matt@madre:/usr/include/ncursesw$ grep -n 'tgetent' *.h
> termcap.h:65:extern NCURSES_EXPORT(int) tgetent (char *, const char *);
> term.h:770:/* termcap database emulation (XPG4 uses const only for 2nd param
> of tgetent) */
> term.h:774:extern NCURSES_EXPORT(int) tgetent (char *, const char *);
>
> However, it seems that curses.h does not contain that definition. Is that the
> problem?

Figure out why it says 'cached' on the -lncurses check.

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