481770 – net-analyzer/netsniff-ng - flowtop will not be built unless ncurses is installed with +static-libs

Bug 481770 - net-analyzer/netsniff-ng - flowtop will not be built unless ncurses is installed with +static-libs

Summary: net-analyzer/netsniff-ng - flowtop will not be built unless ncurses is instal...

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Michael Weber (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2013-08-20 16:33 UTC by Olipro
Modified:	2013-12-03 09:21 UTC (History)
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Description Olipro 2013-08-20 16:33:52 UTC

In order to have flowtop, you must have compiled ncurses with the static flag - perhaps provide a USE flag in netsniff-ng that will require ncurses to be built appropriately?

Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-12-03 09:21:00 UTC

Sorry, I cannot reproduce this:

my logfile:
http://b-4.xmw.de/var/log/portage/build/net-analyzer/netsniff-ng-0.5.8_rc2:20130808-111650.log

# emerge -pv ncurses

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r3:5  USE="cxx gpm unicode -ada -debug -doc -minimal -profile -static-libs -tinfo -trace" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 kB