SystemSim 3.1 ppu-gdb and spu-gdb not working   

Hi all,

I've just installed the IBM Cell SDK and Full System Simulator (SystemSim) on Ubuntu 8.10 and things seem to be working. I can compile programs that use both the PPU and the SPUs. Running these programs in the newest SystemSim from alphaworks also works, the output is correct.

However there are two things not working in the SystemSim after a fresh installation: ppu-gdb and spu-gdb.

spu-gdb complains that it cannot load libexpat.so.0
This can be resolved by installing the expat-devel rpms for Fedora 9, PPC and PPC64. Afterwards a symlink needs to be created:

1. ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0

Now spu-gdb works.

ppu-gdb complains that it cannot load libncurses.so.5, however, this file is present in /lib

I've tried installing the ncurses-libs, ncurses-devel, compat-expat1 rpms for Fedora 9, PPC and PPC64. I've tried several different symlinks... Still, it cannot load libncurses.so.5...

Does anyone experience the same error, or am I the only one?
Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?

On a fresh copy of SystemSim 3.1, with these two RPMs installed:

• expat-devel-2.0.1-5.ppc.rpm (for /usr/lib/libexpat.so)
• compat-expat1-1.95.8-4.ppc64.rpm (for /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0)

This is the output of ldd:

[root@(none) fedora9]# ldd /usr/bin/ppu-gdb
	linux-vdso64.so.1 =>  (0x0000000000100000)
	libncurses.so.5 => not found
	libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 (0x0000040000060000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x0000040000090000)
	libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0 (0x0000040000170000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00000400001c0000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00000400001f0000)
	/lib64/ld64.so.1 (0x0000040000000000)
[root@(none) fedora9]#

After some trial and error, I still don't know how to install the FC9 PPC64 version of libncurses...