Problem Building gdb on Solaris 2.8 for Intel

[Scott Kelley]

Hello,

I was trying to compile gdb 4.18, on Solaris 2.8 for Intel,
using gcc 2.95.2.

I ran configure, and then make, which eventually stopped with
this info:

gcc -c -g -O2    -I. -I. -I./config -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I./../include/opcode 
-I./../readline/.. -I../bfd -I./../bfd  -I./../include -I../intl -I./../intl 
-I./tui   utils.c
In file included from utils.c:31:
/usr/include/term.h:1034: parse error before `bool'
/usr/include/term.h:1034: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/include/term.h:1035: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1060: parse error before `SGTTY'
/usr/include/term.h:1060: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/include/term.h:1081: parse error before `sgr_mode'
/usr/include/term.h:1081: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1082: parse error before `sgr_faked'
/usr/include/term.h:1082: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1092: parse error before `funckeystarter'
/usr/include/term.h:1092: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1094: parse error before `_fl_rawmode'
/usr/include/term.h:1097: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1101: parse error before `_input_queue'
/usr/include/term.h:1101: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1108: parse error before `*'
/usr/include/term.h:1108: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1111: parse error before `bit_vector'
/usr/include/term.h:1111: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1115: parse error before `check_turn_off'
/usr/include/term.h:1115: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1116: parse error before `non_faked_mode'
/usr/include/term.h:1116: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1117: parse error before `_cur_pair'
/usr/include/term.h:1117: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1118: parse error before `*'
/usr/include/term.h:1118: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/term.h:1120: parse error before `}'
/usr/include/term.h:1207: parse error before `int'
/usr/include/term.h:1207: `vidputs' declared as function returning a function
/usr/include/term.h:1207: parse error before `)'
make[1]: *** [utils.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/users/sk01/bin/gdb-4.18/gdb'
make: *** [all-gdb] Error 2
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After poking around things a little bit, my solution was
to go into config.cache and change

    ac_cv_header_term_h=${ac_cv_header_term_h='yes'}

to read

    ac_cv_header_term_h=${ac_cv_header_term_h='no'}

and then re-run configure and install.

I later tried the exact same thing using gdb 5.0 
(still on Solaris 2.8 for Intel), had the same problem,
 and fixed it in the same way (tweaking the cache).

I asked a guru friend what to do about this and he replied,
"That's a bug, report it", so I'm reporting it...

I apologize for not providing a patch; I don't know enough
about how the configure scripts work to be able to make one.
(I don't know why it's barfing on term.h, either.)

Thanks,

Scott