[Mingw-users] Unable to configure GDB 5.1.1 with MinGW/MSYS

[Jeanine K. <jea...@sc...>]

I attempted configure GDB 5.1.1 on my Windows 2000/MingGW1.1/MSYS1.0.6
but it failed with the following error message:

Configuring gdb...
<several lines omitted>
checking compiler warning flags...  -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment
-Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized
checking for cygwin... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) no
checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
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 /c/gnu/gdb-i386/gdb failed, exiting.

The only GDB port for MinGW I found on the MinGW website is version
4.18, and I would want to try to compile GDB 5.1.1 for MinGW first
before I resort to Cgywin.  

Is there a work around to this "missing term library" problem?

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeanine Kwong