* gdb configure error: no termcap library found
@ 2006-11-05 17:16 Erik Leunissen
2006-11-05 17:44 ` Steve Eaton
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From: Erik Leunissen @ 2006-11-05 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb
When compiling the gdb-6.4 source package, the build comes to a halt
when the ./configure script in the gdb directory is run:
configure: error: no termcap library found
I have trouble to make this error message correspond with the actual
output of the following command:
> locate *libncurses.so*
/lib/libncurses.so.5
/lib/libncurses.so.5.3
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.1.9.7a
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.2.1
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.2
Can somebody please help me find out what's wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Erik Leunissen
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2006-11-05 17:16 gdb configure error: no termcap library found Erik Leunissen
@ 2006-11-05 17:44 ` Steve Eaton
2006-11-05 19:33 ` Erik Leunissen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Steve Eaton @ 2006-11-05 17:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Erik Leunissen, gdb
I had something similar a while back. I actually had termcap available and still got errors. Seems to me I did something simple like adding the ncurses-devel.
Steve
>>> Erik Leunissen <e.leunissen@hccnet.nl> 11/05/06 10:16 AM >>>
When compiling the gdb-6.4 source package, the build comes to a halt
when the ./configure script in the gdb directory is run:
configure: error: no termcap library found
I have trouble to make this error message correspond with the actual
output of the following command:
> locate *libncurses.so*
/lib/libncurses.so.5
/lib/libncurses.so.5.3
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.1.9.7a
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.2.1
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.2
Can somebody please help me find out what's wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Erik Leunissen
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2006-11-05 17:44 ` Steve Eaton
@ 2006-11-05 19:33 ` Erik Leunissen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Erik Leunissen @ 2006-11-05 19:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Steve Eaton; +Cc: gdb
Steve Eaton wrote:
> I had something similar a while back. I actually had termcap available and still got errors. Seems to me I did something simple like adding the ncurses-devel.
>
That did the trick indeed.
Thanks.
For the maintainers in this mailing list: would it be wise to change the
error message ("configure: error: no termcap library found")?
To me, the message was misleading, because:
- a termcap library actually was present
- the configure script appeared to be needing other files besides the
library (header files, ... ).
Cheers,
Erik Leunissen
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