Can't configure gdb-5.3 for sparc64-linux: Could not find a term library

This was on a Aurora SPARC Linux 1.0 (Ansel) Ultra1 sun4u system with
these packages:

binutils 2.13.90 20030122 sparc64-linux
bison-1.35-1
dejagnu-1.4.3-0	(from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/dejagnu/dejagnu-1.4.3-0.src.rpm)
expect-5.32.2-67
gcc 3.4 20030122 (experimental) sparc64-linux
glibc-2.2.5-42
glibc64-2.2.5-42
kernel-2.4.20-2.3sparc
tcl-8.3.3-67

(Aurora is based on Red Hat Linux 7.X)

When trying to configure gdb-5.3 (to hunt down PR c++/8183) for
sparc64-linux, I get this error:

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checking compiler warning flags...  -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wtrigraphs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized
checking for cygwin... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... (cached) no
checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... (cached) no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... (cached) no
checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
configure: error: Could not find a term library
Configure in /usr/local/src/gcc-binutils/branch/objdir-gdb-5.3/gdb failed, exiting.


but ncurses and termcap is installed...

ncurses-5.2-26
ncurses-devel-5.2-26
libtermcap-2.0.8-28
libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-28
termcap-11.0.1-10

Any ideas?

Should I try to rebuild the ncurses srpm for sparc64?

How do I do that??

Cheers,

/ChJ