shells/zsh links to devel/ncurses

[Baptiste Daroussin]

2011/3/3 Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org>:
> 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
>

For information, about all (almost) the ports that links to ncurses
have this problem.
A global solution should be found.

regards,
Bapt