gdb 9.2 won't build

Doug Abbott
2020-09-08T16:59:43Z

Hi all,

I'm trying to build gdb 9.2 natively on a Linux x86_64 machine, a guest
running under VirtualBox on Windows 10. The linker is throwing a number
of "undefined reference" symbols like tputs and tgetflag which appear to
have something to do with ncurses and/or termcap.

I tried the configure command shown in the wiki under building natively,
adding --disable-tui because that fixed a different problem. I'm
guessing I'm missing a library, but which one?

The reason I'm going through this exercise is that gdb 7.6 that comes
with CentOS 7 won't read the python support functions for KGDB. It
complains about "missing attribute COMPLETE_EXPRESSION".

TIA for any help you can offer.

Doug

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Doug Abbott
Principal Consultant, Intellimetrix
Linux for the Real World
575-590-2788