Problem installing ncurses/ncursesw

[Jody Paul]

On Saturday, August 04, 2007, at 08:53PM, "Chris Pickel" <sfiera at macports.org> wrote:
>On 04 Aug, 2007, at 22:40, Jody Paul wrote:
>> I am having trouble when I attempt to install any ports that depend  
>> on ncurses.
>> Running on a MacBook Pro (Intel) with OS X 10.4.10 I get the  
>> following when trying to install the ncurses port.
>> Any advice on what I should be doing to make this work?
>> Thanks!!!
>
>Is there any chance that your MacPorts installation was copied/ 
>migrated from a ppc Mac? I see two problems in your transcript:
>  * it's referring to /opt/local/lib/libformw.dylib etc., which are  
>installed by ncursesw, and shouldn't be there if ncursesw hasn't yet  
>been installed
>  * it's saying that these files are compiled for ppc
>
>The simplest explanation is that these files were put there by a ppc  
>installation of MacPorts. If that's the case, the simplest solution  
>is to move /opt/local aside and reinstall from the disk image. If you  
>can't install ncurses, I'm guessing you haven't been able to install  
>much at all.
>
>
>Chris

Thanks, that solved the problem.
Was definitely due to a migrated system.
Interesting that the selfupdate worked fine as did upgrade to
quite a number of other ports... wasn't until I tried updating
ncurses that the problem showed up.
Thanks again!
--J