On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 18:33 -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > Reimundo Heluani wrote: > > Hello list, I'm sorry if the question is too stupid but if you can spare > > me a few minutes I'd love to hear an explanation: > > > > Compiling texinfo in the temporary system (ch 6) I ran into a problem of > > lots of undefined references to tputs. Googling I found that it was > > because of the missing dev packages for ncurses in the host (the headers > > weren't there). So I did add them and now texinfo compiles fine. > > > Sounds right > > The thing that I'd like to understand though is why can't I use the > > ncurses installed earlier in /tools. The headers files are there > > in /tools/include and the right libraries are in /tools/lib64. I tried > > passing CPPFLAGS="-I/tools/include" and LDFLAGS="-L/tools/lib64" to > > configure for texinfo to no avail. I'm asking cause since my host is a > > live dvd, it's a pain to remaster it everytime I need to add something > > to it. > > > Texinfo compiles binaries for the host and the target platform. You cant > mix host and target binaries. This is a cross-compiler not a native > toolchain.
Ahhh thanks! should've known that! R. > _______________________________________________ > Clfs-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org
