ncurses install hangs

[David Arve]

Thanks everyone. Awesome response time on this list.

/David

On 19 nov 2008, at 15.37, nox wrote:

> 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.