gcc -lterminfo

gcc -lterminfo

[Xianglong Huang]

Hi,

I tried to install the newest gdb-5.0 to my Linux7.0 running on a Mac
power pc computer from source file. In the Makefile it fails at a place
that use
gcc ... -lterminfo ...
I can find the library terminfo at /usr/share

>ls /usr/share/terminfo
1  3  5  7  9  P  a  c  e  g  i  k  m  o  q  s  u  w  z
2  4  6  8  N  X  b  d  f  h  j  l  n  p  r  t  v  x  

But the ./configure just cannot find it. Neither does the gcc even I
tried -L/usr/share
One thing I am not sure is that if the usage of "-lterminfo" is correct
or the gcc version (2.95.3) is suitable for making gdb-5.0. Thanks a
lot.

-- 
Long(Xianglong Huang)
Computer Science Dept.
UMass-Amherst
Phone: (413)5450256

Re: gcc -lterminfo

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Xianglong Huang wrote:

> gcc ... -lterminfo ...
> I can find the library terminfo at /usr/share
> 
> >ls /usr/share/terminfo
> 1  3  5  7  9  P  a  c  e  g  i  k  m  o  q  s  u  w  z
> 2  4  6  8  N  X  b  d  f  h  j  l  n  p  r  t  v  x  
> 
> But the ./configure just cannot find it.

This isn't the terminfo library, this is a terminfo data-base (which
functions in the terminfo library access).  What GCC is looking for is
a file called libterminfo.a or libterminfo.so, and it should be in one
of the directories where you keep your other lib*.a and lib*.so files.