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Error encountered for the stage 5.13. Ncurses-5.6

While executing the following command:

Code:

./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \

--without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite

i got this error as shown below

Code:

configure: error: Cannot link with GPM library

Here is the output of the command.

Code:

lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/ncurses-5.6$ ./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared --without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite

checking for egrep... grep -E

Configuring NCURSES 5.6 ABI 5 (Fri Sep 12 09:12:01 GMT 2008)

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

Configuring for linux-gnu

checking for prefix... /tools

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output... a.out

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for executable suffix... 

checking for object suffix... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking version of gcc... 4.1.2

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no

checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes

checking for POSIXized ISC... no

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... -DCC_HAS_PROTOS

checking for ldconfig... /sbin/ldconfig

checking if you want to ensure bool is consistent with C++... yes

checking for g++... g++

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes

checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes

checking for g++... /usr/bin/g++

checking version of g++... 4.1.2

checking if you want to build C++ binding and demo... yes

checking if you want to build with Ada95... no

checking if you want to build programs such as tic... yes

checking if you wish to install curses.h... yes

checking for mawk... no

checking for gawk... gawk

checking for egrep... (cached) grep -E

checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking for tdlint... no

checking for lint... no

checking for alint... no

checking whether ln -s works... yes

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes

checking if filesystem supports mixed-case filenames... yes

checking for ctags... no

checking for etags... no

checking for makeflags variable... 

checking for long file names... yes

checking if filesystem supports mixed-case filenames... (cached) yes

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking for ld... ld

checking for ar... ar

checking for archiver options (symbol AR_OPTS)... rv

checking if you have specified an install-prefix... 

checking if you want to build libraries with libtool... no

checking if you want to build shared libraries... yes

checking if you want to build static libraries... yes

checking if you want to build debug libraries... no

checking if you want to build profiling libraries... no

checking for specified models...  shared normal

checking for default model... shared

checking if you want to build a separate terminfo library... no

checking if you want to link with the GPM mouse library... maybe

checking for gpm.h... yes

checking for Gpm_Open in -lgpm... no

configure: error: Cannot link with GPM library

Appreciate if anyone here could give some hints as to overcome this error.
Thanks.. =)

I have to add the option --with-gpm=no so it will configure it without that library. and everything worked fine.

Thanks man...appreciate your help. I'll try it in the late morning.

One more question, not sure you could help to clear my doubt.

At the initial stage, we were told to create a Build directory for Binutils-2.17 - Pass 1 and GCC-4.1.2 - Pass 1.
Somehow i couldn't understand the instruction, so i just compile them in $LFS/sources and after i had done what needed
to be done, i just deleted the sources directory away and recreate again for the next package to be compiled.

So the question is, will the absence of the two build directories affect the rest of the installation of LFS?

If it does, then i think i'll redo it from scratch again.. and that will be my 4th time .

Thanks.

Justin

No when you run the second pass of the binutils and the glibc you will recreate the directory anyway.

What they want you to there is to create a second directory to build the tool in. so you source directory would look like

Source
----Binutils-2.17
----Binutils-build

Then when you are done compiling you can just delete the build directory and keep the 2.17 for the second pass. The way you did it shouldn't cause any trouble.

Took me a few runs through the first part of the book to get it right as well.

okay, got it! Let me try it again later on. Will post it here again once .. i manage to get it up successfully.

Thanks FLLinux . =)

erh... actually i had switched off my pc already.. i tried to continue from where
i stopped.. by setting up the initial environment and entered all the previous symbolic links
as stated in "5.4. GCC-4.1.2 - Pass 1" and "5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain".

I did execute the "./configure.... " with the option as suggested by you and therefore it ends without error.
However, i did encounter error when i executed the "make install".

I didn't record the error message though.

Does this mean i need to start from scratch again?

Thanks.

If you could post the error that would be great.

I don't think you would need to start over, just might what to check that you got all the links and directories setup correctly.

FLLinux, thanks for your support.

Actually i re-do from scratch again, took about 2 days and just completed this afternoon.

Fast bootup.. but still can't be of any use yet...

And i need to sort out some minor issues before i could continue
with the BLFS.