Re: # ncurses for mips

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:39:31PM +0800, Sam wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have installed ncurses 5.2 on Mandrake 8.2, and work well..
> However, I try to install it for MIPS and get some error...
> so I reconfigure with --libdir to appropriate lib path,
> address@hidden ncurses-5.2]# ./configure --target=mips-linux
> --libdir=/opt/toolchains/mips/mips-linux/lib
...
> cd ../objects;
>  mips-linux-gcc -I../progs -I.  -DNDEBUG -I. -I../include -DHAVEc
> mips-linux-gcc ../objects/tic.o
> ../objects/dump_entry.o -L../lib -L/usr/lib -lnc

perhaps the -L/usr/lib is the problem.

> /lib/libc.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [tic] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sam/ncurses-5.2/progs'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

make_keys should be built with $(HOSTCC), which does not appear to be
the case in your configuration

> mips-linux-gcc -o
> make_keys -O2  -I../ncurses -I.  -DNDEBUG -I. -I../include -D
> ./make_keys ./tinfo/keys.list > init_keytry.h
> /bin/sh: ./make_keys: cannot execute binary file
> make[1]: *** [init_keytry.h] Error 126
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sam/ncurses-5.2/ncurses'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

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