GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

gdbtui fails to detect terminal (port from gcc-linaro)

Asked by Karl Palsson

the packaged arm-none-eabi-gdbtui fails to start.

karlp@dragnet:~/tools/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_6-2012q2/bin$ ./arm-none-eabi-gdbtui
Error opening terminal: xterm.

The symptoms match https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/+bug/906661 where the fix has already been applied. As in that case, it's ignoring the system paths, and looking in jenkins daily build path.

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Terry Guo (terry.guo) said : 		#1

Hi Karl,

Dynamically linking system NCURSES library can fix this issue, but it incurs a new library dependence. User needs to install NCURSES even they don't use gdbtui. We are evaluating this impact. For the time being, you can workaround this issue by exporting TERMINFO before start the gdbtui. The variable TERMINFO should be set to your system path where the terminfo/x/xterm lives. On my Ubuntu 12.04, the command looks like "export TERMINFO=/lib/terminfo".

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