Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (32 mails)

[Jesse Marlin <jlm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Setyo Nugroho writes:
 > Hi Jesse & John, 
 > I am using gdb version 5.1.1. Following your tips, I just tried to install
 > gdb 5.2. 

Try installing package ncurses-devel. And then do a 'make distclean'
in the gdb-5.2 source.

 > 
 > Now I am facing an installation problem. The last few lines after typing
 > ./configure show flwg messages:
 > 
 > checking compiler warning flags...  -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment
 > -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized
 > checking for cygwin... no
 > checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) no
 > checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
 > checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
 > checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... (cached) no
 > checking for tgetent in -lcurses... (cached) no
 > checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
 > configure: error: Could not find a term library
 > 
 > Then 'make'-command does have any effect. So the installation failed.
 > 
 > gcc I am using is that of version 2.95.3. The newer version gcc 3.0 has been
 > installed as well, and is occasionally used.
 > 
 > regards,
 > setyo
 > 
 > 
 > > Setyo Nugroho writes:
 > >  > Hi John,
 > >  > No, init.c is not mentioned anywhere in the program.
 > >  >
 > >  > Even for a simple prog like below, I cannot display (list) the prog us
 > > ing
 > >  > gdb.
 > > 
 > > What version of gdb?  I have had varying success with different 5.x
 > > versions of gdb.  5.2 seems to be the best 5.x yet.  A lot of the revampi
 > > ng
 > > of gdb had to do with C++, so I would try downloading and recompiling
 > > a newer version than the one you have.  I think you can find them here:
 > > 
 > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb
 > > 
 > > We have a lot of problems with 5.x gdb on other architectures just using 
 > > it
 > > to debug C.  We have had to stick with 4.17 on Sun, and 4.18 on Compaq ju
 > > st
 > > to debug anything.  The linux stuff seems to be half way decent.
 > > 
 > >
 > 
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