ncurses install hangs

Altoine Barker ndiscreet at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 07:31:46 PST 2008


David,

In answer to your question, yes. There is a bug that has already been
reported. You will have to clean ncurses and run the following commands
in this exact order:

sudo port -v clean ncurses
udo port -v install ncursesw
sudo port -v install ncurses

HTH

-Altoine


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
> 
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