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Hollis Blanchard e0a2cacf2c ncurses: make host-ncurses use host terminfo
Host GDB suffers a serious problem: pressing backspace (or ^W ^U or any other
"delete" key) results in a plain space being printed instead, making the
command prompt almost completely unusable.

That's because it's using host-ncurses, which embeds a path for the terminfo
database into the library itself. That path ends up being something like
/home/hollisb/buildroot.git/output/host/share/terminfo, which obviously doesn't
generally exist other hosts. ('relocate-sdk.sh' cannot and does not edit
binaries like libncurses.so.6, so doesn't resolve this problem.)

/usr/share/terminfo is a far better path to use, since it almost certainly
exists on the host. Theoretically, it could be from a different ncurses version
with incompatible terminfo database format, but this doesn't seem to be a
problem in practice. (Future patches could address the theoretical problem if
it actually appears in real life.)

This change allows buildroot's host gdb, which uses ncurses 6.x, to work on
RHEL5, RHEL6, and RHEL7, which all provide terminfo from ncurses 5.x.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollis_blanchard@mentor.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit b35ad5d0b4)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
2018-07-19 23:38:22 +02:00
arch Revert "arch/arm: add cortex-m7 core" 2018-05-20 19:13:29 +02:00
board board/minnowboard: add CONFIG_IGB in Linux kernel config 2018-07-19 23:31:51 +02:00
boot uboot: don't override HOSTCC/HOSTLDFLAGS for kconfig 2018-07-18 23:37:10 +02:00
configs configs/raspberrypi3_defconfig: increase filesystem size 2018-07-19 20:03:35 +02:00
docs docs/manual: fix scancpan path 2018-07-17 09:23:00 +02:00
fs fs: ensure hard links in TARGET_DIR are correctly copied for filesystem input 2018-05-27 23:46:29 +02:00
linux linux: automatically set CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS when perf is enabled 2018-07-19 19:57:23 +02:00
package ncurses: make host-ncurses use host terminfo 2018-07-19 23:38:22 +02:00
support support/dependencies/dependencies.sh: add details for Redhat/Fedora 2018-07-19 12:13:55 +02:00
system skeleton: add /dev/fd, /dev/std{in, out, err} symlinks for static /dev on readonly rootfs 2018-05-01 21:53:45 +02:00
toolchain toolchain: allow disabling packages affected by gcc bug 85180 2018-05-30 23:23:21 +02:00
utils utils/test-pkg: log the output of merge-config 2018-07-19 23:27:56 +02:00
.defconfig arch: remove support for sh64 2016-09-08 22:15:15 +02:00
.flake8 .flake8: ignore utils/diffconfig 2018-03-13 22:37:54 +01:00
.gitignore update gitignore 2013-05-04 12:41:55 +02:00
.gitlab-ci.yml .gitlab-ci.yml: update after removal of freescale defconfigs 2018-05-06 17:36:37 +02:00
.gitlab-ci.yml.in .gitlab-ci.yml: extend check-package test to Config.* files 2018-04-01 10:16:35 +02:00
CHANGES Update for 2018.05 2018-06-01 22:22:57 +02:00
Config.in Config.in: add BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 2018-05-02 14:50:14 +02:00
Config.in.legacy libmediaart: rename options to have proper prefix 2018-05-21 23:13:52 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: add exception about patch licensing 2016-02-26 19:50:13 +01:00
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS: update datacom email addresses 2018-05-25 08:40:14 +02:00
Makefile Update for 2018.05 2018-06-01 22:22:57 +02:00
Makefile.legacy Remove BR2_DEPRECATED 2016-10-15 23:14:45 +02:00
README README: add reference to submitting-patches 2016-02-01 19:16:08 +01:00

Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded
Linux systems through cross-compilation.

The documentation can be found in docs/manual. You can generate a text
document with 'make manual-text' and read output/docs/manual/manual.text.
Online documentation can be found at http://buildroot.org/docs.html

To build and use the buildroot stuff, do the following:

1) run 'make menuconfig'
2) select the target architecture and the packages you wish to compile
3) run 'make'
4) wait while it compiles
5) find the kernel, bootloader, root filesystem, etc. in output/images

You do not need to be root to build or run buildroot.  Have fun!

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