[MacPorts] #40984: ncurses at 5.9.2+command execution failed-build failed

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#40984: ncurses at 5.9.2+command execution failed-build failed
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  Reporter:  idleft@…  |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  defect    |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports     |    Version:  2.2.1
Resolution:  invalid   |   Keywords:
      Port:  ncurses   |
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Comment (by ryandesign@…):

 Replying to [comment:3 idleft@…]:
 > Yes, your concern is right. It's an old problem I have in Mountain Lion.
 I stupidly followed some guide, compiled and installed the coreutils into
 the /usr/bin. I thought the new installation of Mavericks would
 overwritten this problem, but it seems doesn't work, as your assumption. I
 checked out the utilities in /usr/bin, likie 'ls', etc. None of them
 working properly, and I have to add path /bin in front of /usr/bin to make
 these basic commands working. Is there are anything else I can do to solve
 this problem?

 I also would have thought that upgrading to Mavericks (or reinstalling
 Mountain Lion) would have replaced the bad coreutils files with the
 correct OS X versions. You can solve it manually, but it'll take a bit of
 work. Here is how I'd do it.

 First, take a full system backup using Time Machine or your preferred
 method. If you don't have a backup drive or don't have space for a full
 backup, at least back up /usr, e.g. using:

 {{{
 sudo /usr/bin/tar cjf ~/Desktop/usr-backup.tar.bz2 /usr
 }}}

 On my system that comes to about 310MiB so hopefully you at least have
 room for that.

 Next, identify all the files that coreutils installed into /usr/bin. We
 could try to use the coreutils port for this, but instead I manually
 untarred the coreutils source and ran:

 {{{
 ./configure --prefix=/tmp/coreutils
 make -j8
 make install
 find /tmp/coreutils -type f | sed -e s,/tmp/coreutils,/usr, > ~/Desktop
 /coreutils-files.txt
 }}}

 Then we need to figure out which of those files belong on OS X and which
 of them don't. Here's how I did this:

 {{{
 xargs ls -1 < ~/Desktop/coreutils-files.txt > ~/Desktop/coreutils-files-
 ls.txt 2>&1
 }}}

 I've attached the resulting files for reference. In the second file, all
 of those lines that say "No such file or directory" don't belong on OS X
 and should be removed. Here's how I generated a script to do that:

 {{{
 sed -E -n -e 's,^ls: (.*): .*$,rm -fv '\''\1'\'',p' < ~/Desktop/coreutils-
 files-ls.txt > ~/Desktop/coreutils-remove.sh
 }}}

 This script is attached and if it looks good to you, you can download it
 to your Desktop and run it with:

 {{{
 sudo sh ~/Desktop/coreutils-remove.sh
 }}}

 The rest of the coreutils files need to be restored to their original OS X
 versions. This is the tricky part, if you don't have a backup.

 Assuming you don't have /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app anymore
 (it gets removed after installing OS X), download it again from the Mac
 App Store. Then mount the image inside it:

 {{{
 open '/Applications/Install OS X
 Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg'
 }}}

 Now open the Packages folder. Here it gets a bit messy, because the files
 you need aren't all in the same package. If you're not sure which package
 a particular file came from, you can look it up in the bills of materials
 (BOMs) that the installer leaves on your drive. There may be a better way
 to do this, but I used this command to create a single file containing all
 the Apple BOMs:

 {{{
 find /private/var/db/receipts -name 'com.apple.pkg.*.bom' -print0 | xargs
 -0 -n 1 -I % sh -c 'lsbom -s % | sed "s,^,%: ,";' | tee ~/Desktop/all-
 boms.txt
 }}}

 We can then `grep` this for files of interest. For example, to `grep` this
 file for all the coreutils files:

 {{{
 while read LINE; do grep " \.$LINE$" ~/Desktop/all-boms.txt; done <
 ~/Desktop/coreutils-files.txt | tee ~/Desktop/bom-results.txt
 }}}

 all-boms.txt is about 225 MiB on my system so it takes awhile to `grep`,
 but after awhile it's done and we can sort it to get the list of files
 ordered by the package they're in:

 {{{
 sort -u < ~/Desktop/bom-results.txt > ~/Desktop/bom-results-sorted.txt
 }}}

 Looks like the files are spread between BSD, BaseSystemBinaries and
 Essentials. You can open these packages from the install volume with
 [http://www.charlessoft.com/ Pacifist] and extract individual files from
 them. (There are also commands for doing that on the command line but I
 don't remember them off hand.)

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