In building LFS-7.5 and as is my habit, I was trying to install Vim-7.4
into /tools before I started Ch. 6. I did this at the same point last
year when I built LFS-7.4, and all went well. I like having vim
available right at the beginning of Ch. 6 in the chroot environment.
However, this time vim-7.4 failed to configure with the following
terminal output:
checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library
selection
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
no terminal library found
checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.
This failure occurs, with identical output, whether I build as user lfs
or as root in the chroot environment.
This, without all the other stuff, is what the configure log gives:
3560 configure:10388: checking for tgetent in -lcurses
3561 configure:10413: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -I/usr/local/include
-L/usr/local/l
ib conftest.c -lcurses -lnsl >&5
3562
/toolz/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.8.2/../../../../x86_64-unknown-linu
x-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses
3563 collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
As I said this did not happen the last time I tried to do this. I used
`.configure --prefix=/toolz --enable-multibyte`
The use of "/toolz" is not a type-o. It is my trying to recover from
the major error that I made in building LFS-7.4 in which the links from
/usr/lib/{libgcc_s.so*,libstdc++*} to /tools/lib--established at the
beginning of Ch. 6--did not get removed. I am reasonably sure, checked
and double-checked, that I got "/toolz" everywhere "/tools" was
indicated. However........... The sanity checks of Ch. 5 passed and I
have reread the book and don't believe I have missed or interchanged any
major steps. However.............
Because of this error, I want to make sure that my temporary tool chain
works without error. At this point, now, I am not sure. `./configure
--help` indicates that I can use the switch "--with-tlib=library" but I
don't know what to put there. I'd like some guidance to see if it works.
Depending on the results of this troubleshooting, I could scrap my build
so far and start over. My instincts tell me that I made a mistake, but
so far I haven't been able to figure it out. I'm asking for help to
resolve this situation.
Thanks,
Dan
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