Error "no termcap libary found" when building gdb 6.6 for powerpc/strongarm target

Error "no termcap libary found" when building gdb 6.6 for powerpc/strongarm target

[Supriya Sriraman]

I am getting "no termcap library found" error when I was building GDB
6.6, for a powerpc target.
The host and target are powerpc, the build is i686-pc-linux-gnu.

I used the crosstool-0.43 package to build the cross-compiler.
I passed --builduserland and --gdb options to all.sh

Can anyone help me with this?

(I need GDB for strongarm too, but I get the same "no termcap library
found" error).


Here is what I did to build gdb 6.6 for powerpc target:

CC==/opt/build/crosstool-0.43/crosstool/gcc-2.95.3-glibc-2.2.5/powerpc-603e-linux-gnu/bin/powerpc-603e-linux-gnu-gcc

../gdb-6.6/configure --target=powerpc-603e-linux-gnu
--host=powerpc-603e-linux-gnu --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--prefix=/opt/build/crosstool-0.43/crosstool/gcc-2.95.3-glibc-2.2.5/powerpc-603e-linux-gnu


GNU assembler version 2.15 (powerpc-603e-linux-gnu) using BFD version 2.15
configure: error: no termcap library found
make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Re: Error "no termcap libary found" when building gdb 6.6 for powerpc/strongarm target

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:47:24AM -0600, Supriya Sriraman wrote:
> I am getting "no termcap library found" error when I was building GDB
> 6.6, for a powerpc target.
> The host and target are powerpc, the build is i686-pc-linux-gnu.
> 
> I used the crosstool-0.43 package to build the cross-compiler.
> I passed --builduserland and --gdb options to all.sh

You need ncurses for your host system to build GDB.  I assume
crosstool knows how to do that - but I don't, so another list may
be able to help you better.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery