ncurses failure (5.7)

[Timothy Lee]

Seems like this problem might be 'real' - has anyone else observed it?


On Jan 24, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Timothy Lee wrote:

> I'm failing on installing ncurses (w/ +universal variant).
>
> I tried the instructions from this old post:
>
> >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
>
> But I still get 'stuck' with tic owning 90% of the CPU and this  
> screen displayed:
>
> cd misc && make DESTDIR="/mopt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _mopt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> .macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncurses/work/destroot" install
> DESTDIR=/mopt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _mopt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> .macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncurses/work/destroot \
> 	prefix=/mopt/local/ \
> 	exec_prefix=/mopt/local/ \
> 	bindir=/mopt/local//bin \
> 	top_srcdir=.. \
> 	srcdir=. \
> 	datadir=/mopt/local//share \
> 	ticdir=/mopt/local//share/terminfo \
> 	source=terminfo.tmp \
> 	THIS_CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.0" \
> 	THAT_CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.0" \
> 	/bin/sh ./run_tic.sh
> ** Building terminfo database, please wait...
> Running tic to install /mopt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _mopt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync 
> .macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncurses/work/destroot/mopt/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.
>
>
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