Installing gdb

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Excerpt:

 CC="gcc -m64" ./configure --prefix=/u/engineering/locals/solaris10/softs/proglang/gdb-6.6
 make
 make install

Compilation errors:

rm -f gdb
gcc -g -O2       \
        -o gdb gdb.o libgdb.a \
           ../readline/libreadline.a ../opcodes/libopcodes.a ../bfd/libbfd.a ./../intl/libintl.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a      -ldl -lncurses -lsocket -lnsl -lm      ../libiberty/libiberty.a  
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
initscr32                           libgdb.a(tui.o)
w32addch                            libgdb.a(tui-io.o)
w32attron                           libgdb.a(tui-wingeneral.o)
w32attroff                          libgdb.a(tui-wingeneral.o)
acs32map                            libgdb.a(tui-win.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to gdb

To solve it:

cd /usr/ccs/lib
ln -s /usr/ccs/lib/libcurses.so libncurses.so