[Clfs-support] Silly question about texinfo and ncurses

[Reimundo Heluani]

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.

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