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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Mary Burak <mary.burak@netiq.com>
Cc: "'gdb@sources.redhat.com'" <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: gdb:  fatal:  libncurses.so.5:  open failed:  No such file or dir ectory
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030321180145.GA13927@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B17C07174B5E4546A2B04EB096E83FD7C6C707@sjcexch02.netiq.local>

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 09:52:23AM -0800, Mary Burak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed gdb 5.3 on a Solaris 2.8 machine by running:
> 
> ./configure
> ./make
> ./make install
> 
> No errors were encountered during any of these runs.  I set my CC to gcc,
> then ran gdb as root and received the error:
> 
> ld.so.1:  gdb:  fatal:  libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or
> directory
> Killed
> 
> I don't have the libncurses.so.5, and can't find it for Solaris, only Linux.
> I searched the gdb web site, but didn't see anything that says what to do
> about this.  
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If the gdb binary references libncurses.so.5, you probably do have it
on your system somewhere that GCC is set up to search.  Check
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH and similar variables from the user account where you
built GDB.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-21 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-21 17:50 Mary Burak
2003-03-21 18:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-03-21 18:11 Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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