Try to link gdb against tinfow first, then tinfo. In bug #669096 gdb was directly linked both to libtinfo.so.6 and libncursesw.so.6: $ lddtree /usr/bin/gdb /usr/bin/gdb (interpreter => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.6 libncursesw.so.6 => /lib64/libncursesw.so.6 libtinfow.so.6 => /lib64/libtinfow.so.6 ... and caused gdb to SIGSEGV at start. Let's consistently link against *w libraries. Note: the fix on it's own is not enough: - we don't pass include paths to ncursesw libraries - libreadline.so.7 is still linked against libtinfo.so.6 in Gentoo and needs a separate fix. But it's enough to make immediate SIGSEGV to go away. Reported-by: Michał Górny Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/669096 --- a/gdb/configure.ac +++ b/gdb/configure.ac @@ -616,4 +616,4 @@ esac -# These are the libraries checked by Readline. -AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, [termcap tinfo curses ncursesw ncurses]) +# These are the libraries checked by Readline. Not really: readline does not know about *w libs. +AC_SEARCH_LIBS(tgetent, [termcap tinfow tinfo curses ncursesw ncurses]) --- a/gdb/configure +++ b/gdb/configure @@ -8984,3 +8984,3 @@ esac -# These are the libraries checked by Readline. +# These are the libraries checked by Readline. Not really: readline does not know about *w libs. { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for library containing tgetent" >&5 @@ -9009,3 +9009,3 @@ return tgetent (); _ACEOF -for ac_lib in '' termcap tinfo curses ncursesw ncurses; do +for ac_lib in '' termcap tinfow tinfo curses ncursesw ncurses; do if test -z "$ac_lib"; then