ncurses install hangs

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Le 19 nov. 08 à 15:31, William Davis a écrit :

>
> 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.
>

MacPorts does not upgrade dependencies before installing something  
(that's a long standing bug).
ncurses terminfo database come from ncursesw, so you need to upgrade  
ncursesw first (their versions need to be the same).

sudo port upgrade ncursesw
sudo port install ncurses

Regards.