Re: Issues cross-compiling ncurses-5.7 on Fedora Core 9

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > That scheme won't work for cross-compiles (but this report doesn't fit
> > into that area).
>
> Actually, that's exactly our scenario.  We're building binaries for an entirely 
> different platform (i586 instead of x86_64, and uClibc-based instead of glibc).

But then the "only" way to go if you're building a later version of 
ncurses for use with cross-compiling than is installed on the system would 
be to first construct a tic that can support the install, and put that 
before the system's tic in your $PATH.  That's also needed for instance, 
if you were building using the --with-fallbacks configure option.

(I should have added a paragraph in INSTALL talking about the use of tic 
in this way, but it's very rare for anyone to mention that they've read it ;-)

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