On 14-CURRENT: no ports options anymore?

[Dan Mahoney (Ports)]

If this isn’t at least in /usr/ports/UPDATING it sure should be.

-Dan

> On Mar 13, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On 13/03/21 20:17, Hartmann, O. wrote:
>> Since I moved on to 14-CURRENT, I face a very strange behaviour when trying to set
>> options via "make config" or via poudriere accordingly. I always get "===> Options
>> unchanged" (when options has been already set and I'd expect a dialog menu).
>> This misbehaviour is throughout ALL 14-CURRENT systems (the oldest is at FreeBSD
>> 14.0-CURRENT #49 main-n245422-cecfaf9bede9: Fri Mar 12 16:08:09 CET 2021 amd64).
>> I do not see such a behaviour with 13-STABLE, 12-STABLE, 12.2-RELENG.
>> How to fix this? What happened?
> 
> I encountered something similar, some base shared library has changed, guess this is related with the ncurses changes in base.
> 
> If I remember correctly force reinstalling dialog4ports package fixed it. Make sure you reinstall a freshly rebuilt one.
> 
> Most probably anything using ncurses will require rebuild/reinstall.
> 
> The cause is dialog4ports failing to start and the system sees no option changed.
> 
> If that's not enough try
> 
> # ldd -v /usr/local/bin/dialog4ports
> 
> And see if it reports some useful information.
> 
> -- 
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>
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