ncursesw doesn't like to (re)activate

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon May 26 10:33:40 PDT 2008


Rainer Müller wrote:
> Joshua Root wrote:
>> Rainer Müller wrote:
>>> The problem is that our file_map can't handle "2621A" and "2621a" 
>>> even on case-sensitive filesystem. After it installed one file, it 
>>> will complain on the other file that this path already exists in the 
>>> file_map.
>>
>> Hmm, but apparently it does not complain when both files are installed 
>> by one port.
> 
> It does as reported by Tabitha. Maybe these files are new and were not 
> in the version of ncurses installed before. This will only happen on 
> case-sensitive filesystems which most of us do not use.
> 
> I assume the terminfo files are generated on build time, so one of them 
> gets overwritten by the other on case-insensitive filesystems. As a 
> result there will be only one of them and no problems with the file_map.

It turns out that there is a ticket open for this:
<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/14123>

- Josh


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