Bug 516076 – net-p2p/rtorrent-0.9.4-r1 - In file included from canvas.cc:44: attributes.h:54:2: error: #error "SysV or X/Open-compatible Curses header file required"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Wegner 2014-07-02 14:59:57 UTC]

Created attachment 380078 [details]
build.log

Emerging of =net-p2p/rtorrent-0.9.4-r1 fails on my system with a whole list of compilation errors, first of which is

[…]
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..  -I. -I./.. -I../..   -march=native -O2 -pipe -DNDEBUG -pthread    -c -o utils.o utils.cc
In file included from canvas.h:43:0,
                 from canvas.cc:44:
attributes.h:54:2: error: #error "SysV or X/Open-compatible Curses header file required"
 #error "SysV or X/Open-compatible Curses header file required"
  ^
In file included from canvas.h:43:0,
                 from window.h:43,
                 from frame.cc:46:
attributes.h:54:2: error: #error "SysV or X/Open-compatible Curses header file required"
 #error "SysV or X/Open-compatible Curses header file required"
  ^

I will attach a full build.log.

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2.10 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.15.1-gentoo-wotan x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.15.1-gentoo-wotan-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3520M_CPU_@_2.90GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     7921196 total,    755672 free
KiB Swap:    8388604 total,   8383136 free
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 11:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
ccache version 3.1.9 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p47
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.7, 3.3.5, 3.4.1
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.9-r3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.2-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r3
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2-r1
sys-devel/make:           4.0-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.15 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.19-r1
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=1 --load-average=5"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy clean-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fakeroot fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-backup unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="        ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo        ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/       ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 amr avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli colord cracklib crypt cryptsetup cups cxx dbus dirac divx dri dts dvb dvd dvdr emboss encode exif faac faad fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fuse gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gnutls gstreamer gtk gtk3 iconv idn inotify introspection ipv6 jpeg lame lastfm lcms libnotify libsecret mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pulseaudio readline realmedia samba schroedinger sdl sendto session smartcard socialweb spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg syslog systemd tcpd telepathy theora tiff tracker truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis vpx webm wmp wxwidgets x264 xcb xinerama xml xv xvid zeitgeist zeroconf zlib zsh-completion" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CURL_SSL="gnutls" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en de" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64 i386" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Víctor Ostorga (RETIRED) 2014-07-03 13:05:04 UTC]

As the following log section shows, it seems that you don't have the expected curses library:

checking for NcursesW wide-character library... yes
checking for working ncursesw/curses.h... no
checking for working ncursesw.h... no
checking for working ncurses.h... no
configure: WARNING: could not find a working ncursesw/curses.h, ncursesw.h or ncurses.h

Do you have sys-libs/ncurses installed? You should have, it is a dependency

[Comment 2 Martin Wegner 2014-07-03 13:27:47 UTC]

(In reply to Víctor Ostorga from comment #1)
> As the following log section shows, it seems that you don't have the
> expected curses library:
> 
> checking for NcursesW wide-character library... yes
> checking for working ncursesw/curses.h... no
> checking for working ncursesw.h... no
> checking for working ncurses.h... no
> configure: WARNING: could not find a working ncursesw/curses.h, ncursesw.h
> or ncurses.h
> 
> Do you have sys-libs/ncurses installed? You should have, it is a dependency

ncurses is installed on that system. I checked that and even re-merged it prior to reporting this bug. Unfortunately, I'm out of office until Monday, so at the moment I'm not able to provide more details (version, USE flags of ncurses, etc.). I will do that on Monday.

[Comment 3 Martin Wegner 2014-07-07 16:06:28 UTC]

As promised, here is the exact info on ncurses:

$ emerge -pv ncurses
[ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r3:5  USE="cxx tinfo unicode -ada -debug -doc -gpm -minimal -profile -static-libs -trace" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 2,761 kB

[Comment 4 Martin Wegner 2014-07-07 16:16:24 UTC]

I tried to reproduce this on another Gentoo system of mine and couldn't. While examining the differences I found that ncurses was emerged with USE="tinfo" on the failing system (enabled just for ncurses via package.use).

So I re-merged ncurses with USE="-tinfo" and rtorrent was merged successfully.

So it seems that the rtorrent build process cannot handle ncurses with USE="tinfo" here.

[Comment 5 Ben Kohler 2014-08-07 15:21:12 UTC]

Bug #462788 is related, not sure if this should be considered a dupe or not.  I'd bet that the proper fix for ncurses[tinfo] will solve both bugs though.

[Comment 6 Attila Oláh 2014-11-17 18:44:56 UTC]

I can also confirm that the culprit is sys-libs/ncurses[tinfo]. Remerging ncurses with USE="-tinfo" fixes the rtorrent build failure.

Since the problem only appears at compile time, remerging sys-libs/ncurses with USE="tinfo" after rtorrent has been built successfully results in a system with USE="tinfo" plus the latest rtorrent.

[Comment 7 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2015-05-08 14:32:18 UTC]

+  08 May 2015; Justin Lecher <[e-mail]>
+  +files/rtorrent-0.9.4-tinfo.patch, metadata.xml, rtorrent-0.9.4-r1.ebuild:
+  Add fix for ncurses[tinfo], bug #522706
+