ncurses install hangs

[William Davis]

On Nov 19, 2008, at 9:13 AM, David Arve wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install ncurses through macports. After running 'sudo  
> port -v install ncurses' I get the following:
>
> [...]
> /bin/sh ./run_tic.sh
> ** Building terminfo database, please wait...
> Running tic to install /opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> .macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncurses/work/destroot/opt/local/ 
> share/terminfo ...
>
> 	You may see messages regarding extended capabilities, e.g., AX.
> 	These are extended terminal capabilities which are compiled
> 	using
> 		tic -x
> 	If you have ncurses 4.2 applications, you should read the INSTALL
> 	document, and install the terminfo without the -x option.
>
>
> And then nothing... Running 'top' I can see that tic is taking ~90%  
> of the CPU. But it never stops it just goes on for hours and hours  
> with no output or nothing.
>
> Does anyone know what might be the problem?
>
> I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 (8S165) on a PPC iMac Snow with macports  
> version 1.600.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Arve


Same thing here under 10.5.5 on Intel.  After cleaning and first  
installing ncursesw, installed OK.


William Davis
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Mac OS X.5.5 Darwin 9.5.0
XQuartz 2.3.2_rc1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple23)
Mac Mini Intel Duo @ 1.86 GHz

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