Cross-compilation shows>error: no termcap library found, why?

I'm experiencing a frustrating error trying to cross-compile gdbserver
for arm. I've downloaded and crosscompiled termcap with this command

    export CC="/bin/arm-mv5sft-linux-gnueabi-gcc"
    export CXX="/bin/arm-mv5sft-linux-gnueabi-g++"
    export AR="/bin/arm-mv5sft-linux-gnueabi-ar"
    CONFOPTS+="--target=arm-linux --host=arm-linux
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
--enable-static"
    ./configure ${CONFOPTS}
    make &&

    make DESTDIR=~/gdb-7.6/toInst install

Being such crosscompilation successful since I wasn't prompted any
error, I got the libtermcap.a which is arm, as you can see below, and
located on ~/termcap/

    :$ file *.o
    termcap.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
    tparam.o:  ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
    version.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), not strippe

However, if I try to do the same for cross-compiling gdbserver for
arm, with the same options and calling the cross compiled lib

    export CC="/bin/arm-mv5sft-linux-gnueabi-gcc"
    export CXX="/bin/arm-mv5sft-linux-gnueabi-g++"
    export AR="/bin/arm-mv5sft-linux-gnueabi-ar"

    CONFOPTS+="--target=arm-linux --host=arm-linux
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc --enable-static
--with-termcap=~/termcap/libtermcap.a"
    ./configure ${CONFOPTS} $@
    make &&

    make DESTDIR=~/gdb-7.6/toInst install

I get this

    checking for library containing waddstr... no
    configure: WARNING: no enhanced curses library found; disabling TUI
    checking for library containing tgetent... no
    configure: error: no termcap library found
    make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `~/gdb-7.6'
    make: *** [all] Error 2

I have found several sites on the internet suggesting installing the
library libncurses5-dev, but have I already installed!


    $ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 67 not upgraded.

SO, I don't know what can I do to crosscompile gdbserver, please help!

Thanks in advance!!

regards