shells/zsh links to devel/ncurses

[Wesley Shields]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:21:17PM +0800, Alexander Kojevnikov wrote:
> If devel/ncurses is installed, shells/zsh links to libncursesw from
> that port but doesn't add it as a dependency.
> 
> To reproduce:
> 
> 1. Install devel/ncurses
> 
> 2. (Re)install shells/zsh
> 
> 3. Run:
> % ldd `shich zsh`
>         libncursesw.so.6.0 => /usr/local/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0 (0x8008f4000)
>         ...
> 
> 4. pkg_delete devel/ncurses
> 
> 5. zsh cannot start:
> % ldd `which zsh`
>         libncursesw.so.6.0 => not found (0x0)
>         ...
> 
> Re-building shells/zsh fixes it:
> 
> % ldd `which zsh`
>         libncursesw.so.8 => /lib/libncursesw.so.8 (0x8008f5000)
>         ...
> 
> To sum it up, shells/zsh should either not link to devel/ncurses or
> list it as a dependency if it does.

Thanks for bringing this up. I noticed it a while ago but forgot to mail
the maintainer.

While we are on the subject of silent dependencies, mail/mutt-devel
links with ncurses silently too. I've attached the maintainer of
mutt-devel to this mail so he can hopefully work up a patch.

-- WXS