Bug 70700 – dev-util/dialog-1.0.20040731: econf fails on -lncursesw check

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Carsten Milkau 2004-11-10 13:03:56 UTC]

When trying to upgrade dev-util/dialog from version 0.9_beta20031002 to 1.0.20040731, configure complains about being unable to link to ncursesw library. Seems like a typo to me, I dont know such a library. I will file the output of "emerge -u dev-util/dialog" and "emerge info" in attachments.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Carsten Milkau 2004-11-10 13:05:29 UTC]

Created attachment 43674 [details]
Output of # emerge -u dev-util/dialog

[Comment 2 Carsten Milkau 2004-11-10 13:06:07 UTC]

Created attachment 43675 [details]
Output of # emerge info

[Comment 3 Carsten Milkau 2004-11-10 13:10:15 UTC]

Santa, I wish you would send someone to replace a <pre>-Tag by a <tt>-Tag  for
Christmas this year:o)

[Comment 4 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2004-11-10 15:06:58 UTC]

I changed the {ncursesw} to {ncurses} and it worked fine after this, it does look like a typo.

[Comment 5 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2004-11-12 09:15:55 UTC]

ncursesw is for unicode (Wide chars).. you probably are trying to compile dialog with the unicode use flag.. but you compiled your ncurses without.. So you can either remove the unicode use flag or recompile ncurses with it... If that does not solve the problem.. please re-open it.

[Comment 6 Carsten Milkau 2004-11-16 10:21:39 UTC]

thank you :-)