Re: unable to compile gdb 6.0 as a cross gdb; no termcap library found; and plain gcc is still called

["Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware)" <Ken dot Wolcott at med dot ge dot com>]

Hi Marc;

  Thank you for your response.  I am looking into that ptx thing, but first 
via Dan's suggestion of running crosstool with --builduserland which seems to 
call ptx locally.  Running into some problems with that but not through 
analyzing the error(s) I'm getting with the busybox component...

Thanks,
Ken

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 13:31, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:20:07PM -0600, Wolcott, Ken (MED, Compuware) 
wrote:
> > Hi Marc;
> >
> >   I think I tried everything that you and Dan suggested, but I have some
> > problems still.
> >
> >   First, there are many initial calls to gcc rather than
> > arm-arm9-linux-gnu-gcc that are suspicious to me.  How can I end up with
> > an arm9 native gdb if it is calling the i686 gcc?
>
> This seems to be normal....If it works, don't care about :)
>
> >   Secondly, the build dies with:
> >
> > configure: error: no termcap library found
> > make: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
>
> Well, gdb needs a terminal library to access your screen....install
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/termcap/ or ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses
>
> before you try to install gdb....
>
> (or get a tool that does this for you :) have we already mentioned
> http://ptxdist.sf.net?)
>
> >   I have attached the compressed output log and my compile script.
>
> nothing here....but doesn't matter
>
> >   I guess /etc is missing in the PATH environment variable?  I'll try
> > that tack next.
>
> Nope - In etc, there should be no executables, so adding a path to there
> has no effect.....
>
> Marc

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Kenneth A. Wolcott
Consultant, Clinical Systems Engineering
GE Medical Systems Information Technologies
8200 West Tower Avenue, Milwaukee, WI  53223
Phone:  414/362-2720 
Email:  Ken.Wolcott@med.ge.com

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