[SOLVED] Help Resolving error related Texinfo-4.13a in cross-lfs
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Help Resolving error related Texinfo-4.13a in cross-lfs
Hi Everyone ... I am trying to compile Texinfo-4.13a but facing the following error during make process
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/mnt/clfs/sources/sources/texinfo-4.13/info/terminal.c:175: undefined reference to `tputs'
terminal.o: In function `terminal_goto_xy':
/mnt/clfs/sources/sources/texinfo-4.13/info/terminal.c:235: undefined reference to `tputs'
terminal.o:/mnt/clfs/sources/sources/texinfo-4.13/info/terminal.c:272: more undefined references to `tputs' follow
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [ginfo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/sources/texinfo-4.13/tools/info'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/sources/texinfo-4.13/tools/info'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/sources/texinfo-4.13/tools'
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/mnt/clfs/sources/sources/texinfo-4.13/tools'
My host system is ubuntu 12.10 and i am using clfs-2.0 guide ..for cross compilation of x86_64 bit using x86_64 bit system.
Book : Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch - Version 2.0.0-RC1-x86_64-Pure64
Pg no: 83 ...getting the above error on 'make -C tools'
Distribution: PCLinuxOS2023 Fedora38 + 50+ other Linux OS, for test only.
Posts: 17,511
Rep:
'ncurses' : Just a thought. 'tputs' is an ncurses thing.
Difficult to fail with a Texinfo-4.13a build.
May be the patches will do ?
All to be applied with $ patch -p1 < .....
Ref. http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedo...5.fc15.src.rpm
Texinfo-4.13a is commonly used, e.g. Fedora 11 ... Fedora 18.
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