Bug 1464

Summary:	termcap.h: No such file or directory
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	carlo
Component:	gdb	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Description carlo 1999-03-10 01:15:41 UTC

make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/BUILD/gdb-4.17/readline'
gcc -c -O2 -g   -D_POSIX_VERSION -I. -I./../
-DVOID_SIGHANDLER -DVI_MODE readli
ne.c
In file included from readline.c:50:
rldefs.h:65: termcap.h: No such file or directory

People that do not have termcap, but have ncurses, need
to include <ncurses/termcap.h> instead.

ncurses is the prefered a replacement of termcap and curses
imho. Source code should be written for ncurses in the first
place :)

Comment 1 carlo 1999-03-10 01:42:59 UTC

It seems that gdb isn't supporting ncurses at all.
I have to manually change gdb/Makefile to use TERMCAP=-lncurses
instead of -ltermcap.  That together with adding
-I/usr/include/ncurses to CFLAGS makes it compile flawlessly.

I used gdb-4.17.0.11.spec which isn't written by RedHat I think,
but I suppose this problem is also in older versions.

You can find this spec easily with a ftp search engine.

I've found the #include <termcap.h> also in other packages
than gdb and will report them here when I run into them again.

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 1999-03-19 00:09:59 UTC

install libtermcap-devel