Weird problem with ncurses(w)

[Michael Price]

On 1/29/07, cssdev at mac.com <cssdev at mac.com> wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Michael Price wrote:
>
> > I'm apparently confused. Would someone explain to me why we have two
> > ncurses ports, why ncurses depends on ncursesw, and why texinfo 4.8
> > and 4.8_1 didn't depend on them but 4.8_2 now does?
>
> I can't speak to the first part, but I can speak to the second.
>
> I had a broken texinfo, and in fixing I realized the error came about
> because the port's gettext dependency wasn't specified. When I did a
> trace rebuild after adding the port, the trace also caught an
> undeclared dependency on ncurses. Therefore, I added the undeclared
> dependencies to the port.

What's wrong with the ncurses that comes with OS X?

Michael