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On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Peter Wippich wrote: > Hi Robert, > > even though this group is more or less about building toolchains, i know, i was pushing the bounds of the scope of the list, but i can't think of any other place to find this many toolchain experts in the same place. :-) > not about using them (at least not for pre-build toolchains > downloaded somewhere), the answer to your problem is quite simple. > The toolchain you downloaded (as most others) does not include > lib(n)curses. right, and all i wanted to verify was that that was the immediate and insurmountable obstacle with the toolchain i downloaded. i was being told that perhaps my problem was installing the toolchain in the wrong place, but that made absolutely no sense. the problem was that the toolchain *did not contain any curses/ncurses support*. that's all i wanted to verify, and that i wasn't missing anything obvious. > Solution is straigtforward: get the ncurses tarball and build it for > your toolchain. Consult your toolchain vendor on how to > configure/install additional libraries for your environment. Or > find out by yourself. If getting stuck hire a consultant, which may > save you days. no, no, i'm pretty sure i can handle that part, i just wanted confirmation that what i was thinking was correct and that i was getting weird advice from others. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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