Bug 21078

Summary:	dialog will not build either in emerge or manually
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thomas Worthington <tww>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Brandon Low (RETIRED) <lostlogic>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas Worthington 2003-05-15 17:51:47 UTC

The dialog packages can not find the ncurses library headers during the 
execution of their configure scripts. The packages download and start the 
configure stage but then fail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge dialog
Actual Results:  
Configure gives an error message stating that it can not find ncurses include 
files.

This happens in both the .9beta2002 and 2003 ebuilds.

Expected Results:  
In the 2002 version I added the line 
cf_cv_curses_incdir="-I/usr/include"

into the configure file and ran it again from the command line (ie "./configure
"). This worked and I just did "make" and "make install" followed by an "emerge 
inject" to update the system.

I was building Gentoo on a clean machine and so this was not an update nor were 
there any unusual non-Gentoo packages installed. I'm ranking this as Major since 
it prevents TeX and some other major items from building even though dialog is 
not a vital package in itself (in fact tetex will build fine if you remove the 
dependancy on dialog from its ebuild script: I've never actually needed the 
dialog system in five years of working in TeX).

Comment 1 Thomas Worthington 2003-05-22 04:22:11 UTC

Forget it: I gave up and re-installed and the problem went away. Something must have went wrong during the first install but what I don't know; almost certainly nothing to do with dialog.

TW