[Clfs-support] Silly question about texinfo and ncurses

[Joe Ciccone]

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.