Help building gdb

[Joel Sherrill]

Stevens Brian wrote:

>I am trying to build a cross development system as follows:-
>
>	Host:	GNU/Linux (Mandrake 9.2 on an AMD K6)
>	Target	i386-pc
>
>When I try to build gdb I get an error reporting that it was unable to find
>a term library and it appears to have been searching for  a file called
>tgetent.
>
>The rest of my environment seems to be working as I have built the Hello
>World test and booted it via grub, but I need to get the debugger going.
>
>  
>
You appear to be missing some development package. 

rpmfind.net is usually a good starting point.  You can search for which 
RPM has the library in it
and then find the appropriate RPM for your distribution.

--joel

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>Brian Stevens
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