From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Doug Abbott <doug@intellimetrix.us>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb 9.2 won't build
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 10:10:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200908171048.GE18641@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d177e3a-4a2f-06e4-5b74-5ec982d45eda@intellimetrix.us>
> I'm trying to build gdb 9.2 natively on a Linux x86_64 machine, a guest
> running under VirtualBox on Windows 10. The linker is throwing a number of
> "undefined reference" symbols like tputs and tgetflag which appear to have
> something to do with ncurses and/or termcap.
>
> I tried the configure command shown in the wiki under building natively,
> adding --disable-tui because that fixed a different problem. I'm guessing
> I'm missing a library, but which one?
>
> The reason I'm going through this exercise is that gdb 7.6 that comes with
> CentOS 7 won't read the python support functions for KGDB. It complains
> about "missing attribute COMPLETE_EXPRESSION".
Try maybe forcing the use of ncuses by configuring GDB --with-curses?
You might get an error if you don't have the ncurses headers installed;
if that happens, install the ncurses dev package, and then try again.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-08 16:59 Doug Abbott
2020-09-08 17:10 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2020-09-08 19:54 ` Doug Abbott
2020-09-08 17:43 ` Keith Seitz
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