[Clfs-support] Silly question about texinfo and ncurses

[Reimundo Heluani]

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. 

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.

Thanks,

R.