The configure script for dev-util/dialog-1.0.20050206 fails to find the ncurses library for linking. >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-util/dialog-1.0.20050206 to / >>> md5 files ;-) dialog-1.0.20040731.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) dialog-1.0.20050206.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) dialog-1.0.20050306.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-dialog-1.0.20040731 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-dialog-1.0.20050206 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-dialog-1.0.20050306 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) dialog_1.0-20050206.orig.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking dialog_1.0-20050206.orig.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dialog-1.0.20050206/work >>> Source unpacked. ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=powerpc-apple-darwin --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/ share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=powerpc-apple- darwin --with-ncursesw checking for package version... 1.0 checking for package patch date... 20050206 checking for powerpc-apple-darwin-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for executable suffix... checking for object suffix... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for powerpc-apple-darwin-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for powerpc-apple-darwin-ar... no checking for ar... ar checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for makeflags variable... checking if filesystem supports mixed-case filenames... yes checking for ctags... yes checking for etags... yes checking if you want to see long compiling messages... yes checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin Configuring for darwin checking if we should define _XOPEN_SOURCE... 500 checking if we should define _POSIX_C_SOURCE... no checking version of gcc... 8 checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for inline... inline checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for off_t... yes checking for size_t... yes checking for working alloca.h... yes checking for alloca... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for getpagesize... yes checking for working mmap... yes checking whether we are using the GNU C Library 2.1 or newer... no checking for argz.h... no checking for limits.h... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for nl_types.h... yes checking for malloc.h... no checking for stddef.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking for feof_unlocked... yes checking for fgets_unlocked... no checking for getcwd... yes checking for getegid... yes checking for geteuid... yes checking for getgid... yes checking for getuid... yes checking for mempcpy... no checking for munmap... yes checking for putenv... yes checking for setenv... yes checking for setlocale... yes checking for stpcpy... yes checking for strchr... yes checking for strcasecmp... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strtoul... yes checking for tsearch... yes checking for __argz_count... no checking for __argz_stringify... no checking for __argz_next... no checking for iconv... yes checking for iconv declaration... extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, const char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft); checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes checking whether NLS is requested... no checking if -lm needed for math functions... no checking if you want to link with dbmalloc for testing... no checking if you want to link with dmalloc for testing... no checking if you want to build libraries with libtool... no checking for multibyte character support... yes checking for ncursesw header in include-path... curses.h checking for ncurses version... 5.4.20040208 checking for Gpm_Open in -lgpm... no checking for initscr... no checking for initscr in -lncursesw... no checking for -lncursesw in /usr/local/lib... no checking for -lncursesw in /usr/lib... no configure: error: Cannot link ncursesw library Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: This is a blocker for app-portage/gentoolkit-dev Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-darwin/macos/10.4, gcc-4.0.0, unavailable, 8.2.0 Power Macintosh) =============================================================== == System uname: 8.2.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: [Not Present] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/ qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/ gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc emboss nls opengl ppc-macos unicode userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
(In reply to comment #0) > The configure script for dev-util/dialog-1.0.20050206 fails to find the ncurses library for linking. More precisely it fails to find ncursesw to link against, because that's not part of Apple's BSD subsystem. Compiling without unicode support works though. > This is a blocker for app-portage/gentoolkit-dev No it's not. Neither dialog nor gentoolkit-dev require Unicode support through the unicode use flag (yet).
if I recall correctly, some ebuilds replace ncurses with ntermcap or something. I know this sounds weird, but I've seen this replacement happening. Maybe it helps some.
This is true on default/linux, x86 as well.
(In reply to comment #3) > This is true on default/linux, x86 as well. Could you elaborate on that, please?
The exact same behavior happens with: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.3-r1, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdr crypt cups curl debug eds emacs emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gaim gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hardened imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl static svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xchat xfce xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
(In reply to comment #5) > The exact same behavior happens with: > USE="x86 X alsa apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdr > crypt cups curl debug eds emacs emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gaim > gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hardened imagemagick imlib java jpeg > libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis > opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell ssl static > svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xchat xfce > xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" That's because your ncurses was very likely emerged with USE=-unicode (which basically just deletes libncursesw in that case). To solve *your* problem, *you* would need to add unicode to your use flags in / et/make.conf and then run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse' and you should automatically get a dialog with unicode support. This bug is about a *different* problem.
(In reply to comment #6) > et/make.conf and then run 'emerge --update --deep --newuse' and you should Er, that should read 'emerge --update --deep --newuse world'....
I'm not a moron; I realize that my USE flags caused it, and I've solved that myself. I was simply pointing out that this *wasn't* an arch issue.
(In reply to comment #8) > I'm not a moron; I realize that my USE flags caused it, and I've solved that > myself. I was simply pointing out that this *wasn't* an arch issue. It is a platform specific bug as you can see from the Product field that limits the scope of this bug. Further, this bug is specific to that platform because the platform by default doesn't have libncursesw. Other than that, the build *should* fail if ncursesw isn't found, so having 'USE=unicode emerge dialog' fail on a system (mainly ncurses) built without the unicode use flag set globally is a Good Thing. For any users wishing to upgrade their system with Unicode-enabled packages, there's the Gentoo Unicode Guide[1] [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml
This bug is invalid and a duplicate of many others. (In reply to comment #3) > This is true on default/linux, x86 as well. Stop cluttering this bug w/ irrelevant comments, please, and run 'emerge --newuse -uD world'.
read the rest of the comment thread.
(in reply to comment #1) This is a blocker because the ebuild should not have been keyworded if it does not work with all of it's USE flags.
dialog requires libncursesw to be available on the system. From what the changelog of ncur I conclude that this just needsses tells me, a never version of ncurses. Hence this bug cannot be resolved for normal users for now, unfortunately. There is not much we can do than just know it's broken for now.
small note: With a proper install of ncurses it compiles and works fine with unicode USE-flag on OSX. Added to svn.
