ncursesw doesn't like to (re)activate
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Sat May 24 06:52:43 PDT 2008
Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> Josh, thanks for confirming. I just did a triple check, and I've got inside:
>
> /opt/local/share/terminfo/2
>
> these files (case sensitive):
>
> 2621 2621-wl 2621A 2621a
OK, so there are two issues here, which may be related. First, ncursesw
wants to install files whose names differ only in case, which doesn't
work on case-insensitive filesystems. This is an upstream problem.
Second, MacPorts "forgets" that all but one of these files was installed
by ncursesw, and hence doesn't remove it upon the port's deactivation.
We definitely want to fix that second problem. However, I did some
googling just now, and it may be possible to work around both issues by
using the --with-hashed-db configure option. This uses Berkeley DB for
the terminfo database instead of separate files.
- Josh
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