From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11554 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2003 18:02:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11547 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2003 18:02:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Mar 2003 18:02:01 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18wSjS-0003EQ-00; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:03:14 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18wQpu-0004hS-00; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:01:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:02:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mary Burak Cc: "'gdb@sources.redhat.com'" Subject: Re: gdb: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or dir ectory Message-ID: <20030321180145.GA13927@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mary Burak , "'gdb@sources.redhat.com'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 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