what is term library?

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 12:08 +0800, Chong Zan Kai wrote:
> Can someone tell me what is term library, please? I try to run
> the ./configure and it ended up with term library not found.
> Thank you.

In this context, "term" is an abbreviation for "terminal", meaning the
Linux text console or a terminal emulator such as gnome-terminal or
xterm.  The package you need to install to get that software to build is
the 'libncurses5-dev', IIRC.

You can read about "ncurses" on Wikipedia:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses

> The log:
> 
> ./configure --target=arm-elf
> ...
> ...
> ...
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... (cached) no
> checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
> configure: error: Could not find a term library
> Configure in /home/zkchong/Desktop/uclinux/gdb- 5.0/gdb failed,
> exiting.

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Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>