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installing LFS from the arch distribution and have almost finished chapter 5. Unfortunately I hit a brick wall with texinfo. configure showed now errors but make returned the following just before it stopped.
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/home/lfs/texinfo/texinfo-4.2/info/terminal.c:635: undefined reference to `tgetflag'
terminal.o(.text+0xd0c):/home/lfs/texinfo/texinfo-4.2/info/terminal.c:608: undefined reference to `tgetstr'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [ginfo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lfs/texinfo/texinfo-4.2/info'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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The output has numerous "undefined reference to `tgetstr'" messages.
I'm pretty much a newbie on this type of situation so I'm open to any suggestions.
I am also having this problem, and this happens with 4.1 as well. Apparently it has something to do with ncurses not being installed. However, I have tried installing ncurses from source and just the standard shot-in-the-dark
Code:
sudo apt-get install ncurses*
None of this has worked for me. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 as the host system.
I am also having this problem, and this happens with 4.1 as well. Apparently it has something to do with ncurses not being installed. However, I have tried installing ncurses from source and just the standard shot-in-the-dark
Code:
sudo apt-get install ncurses*
None of this has worked for me. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 as the host system.
Hi,
this is a 7 year old thread.
Ubuntu is not a suitable host for lfs. Use the liveCD instead.
Which version of LFS are you trying to install?
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