ports/183170: misc/mc configure fails with ncurses option selected

Milan Obuch bsd at dino.sk
Tue Oct 22 07:30:00 UTC 2013


>Number:         183170
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       misc/mc configure fails with ncurses option selected
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 22 07:30:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Milan Obuch
>Release:        8.4, 9.2, 10.0, 11
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
After upgrade of misc/mc to 4.8.10, there is new option 'ncurses' in option group 'screen'. When option 'slang' was not selected in older version installed (as in 4.8.8 in my case) and I configure port with said new option, 'ncurses', configure fails with following:

checking for ncurses/ncurses.h and ncurses/term.h... no
configure: error: ncurses header not found
===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please report the problem to fjoe at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
"/data/workdir/9-i386/usr/ports/misc/mc/work/mc-4.8.10/config.log" including
the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea
to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. a
/usr/sbin/pkg_info -Ea).
*** [do-configure] Error code 1

>How-To-Repeat:
I believe it should appear if you just try to build 4.8.10 version of misc/mc port and select 'ncurses' option and unselect option 'slang' in group 'screen'. This could slip throug as 'slang' is selected by default.
>Fix:
Install devel/ncurses - I think this is forgotten dependency for option 'ncurses'

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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