diff -r 02db017f4fe1 -r f9145ebb4fbc scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh
--- a/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh	Wed Jan 13 22:30:10 2010 +0100
+++ b/scripts/build/debug/300-gdb.sh	Thu Jan 21 22:33:54 2010 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Build script for the gdb debug facility
 
+# The version of ncurses to use. Yes, it's hard-coded.
+# It's used only internally by crosstool-NG, and is
+# not exposed outside, so we don't care about providing
+# config options for this.
+CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION="5.7"
+
 do_debug_gdb_suffix() {
     case "${CT_GDB_VERSION}" in
         snapshot)   ;;
@@ -47,7 +53,7 @@
     fi
 
     if [ "${do_ncurses}" = "y" ]; then
-        CT_GetFile "ncurses-${CT_NCURSES_VERSION}" .tar.gz  \
+        CT_GetFile "ncurses-${CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION}" .tar.gz  \
                    {ftp,http}://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses \
                    ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses
     fi
@@ -67,8 +73,8 @@
     fi
 
     if [ "${do_ncurses}" = "y" ]; then
-        CT_Extract "ncurses-${CT_NCURSES_VERSION}"
-        CT_Patch "ncurses-${CT_NCURSES_VERSION}"
+        CT_Extract "ncurses-${CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION}"
+        CT_Patch "ncurses-${CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION}"
     fi
 }
 
@@ -154,7 +160,7 @@
         # cross-compiling, and thus will use the ${CT_BUILD}-*
         # tools instead of searching for the native ones...
         CT_DoExecLog ALL                                        \
-        "${CT_SRC_DIR}/ncurses-${CT_NCURSES_VERSION}/configure" \
+        "${CT_SRC_DIR}/ncurses-${CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION}/configure" \
             --build=${CT_REAL_BUILD}                            \
             --host=${CT_BUILD}                                  \
             --prefix=/usr                                       \
@@ -184,7 +190,7 @@
         cd "${CT_BUILD_DIR}/build-ncurses"
 
         CT_DoExecLog ALL                                        \
-        "${CT_SRC_DIR}/ncurses-${CT_NCURSES_VERSION}/configure" \
+        "${CT_SRC_DIR}/ncurses-${CT_DEBUG_GDB_NCURSES_VERSION}/configure" \
             --build=${CT_BUILD}                                 \
             --host=${CT_TARGET}                                 \
             --with-build-cc=${CT_BUILD}-gcc                     \