diff -r 88871c8621b8 -r 3d0a8d386afd scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh
--- a/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh	Thu Feb 17 23:05:34 2011 +0100
+++ b/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh	Thu Mar 03 19:26:08 2011 +0100
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
 
     if [ "${do_ncurses}" = "y" ]; then
         CT_Extract "ncurses-${CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION}"
+        CT_DoExecLog ALL chmod -R u+w "${CT_SRC_DIR}/ncurses-${CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION}"
         CT_Patch "ncurses" "${CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION}"
     fi