%general-entities; ]> Ncurses cross tools When Ncurses is compiled, it executes tic to create a terminfo database in ${prefix}/share/terminfo. If possible, the Makefile will use the tic binary that was just compiled in its source tree, but this does not work when Ncurses is cross-compiled. To allow the Ncurses build in to succeed, we will build and install a tic program that can be run on the host system. Prepare Ncurses for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/cross-tools \ --without-debug --without-shared --without-debug Tells Ncurses to build without debugging information. --without-shared This prevents Ncurses from building its shared libraries, which are not needed at this time. Only one binary is needed for the Cross-Tools. Build the headers and then build tic: make -C include make -C progs tic Install tic with the following command: install -v -m755 progs/tic /cross-tools/bin