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Bug 457564

Summary: app-editors/vim-core-7.3.762 fails with ncurses[tinfo]
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Travis Hansen <travisghansen>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Vim Maintainers <vim>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: flameeyes, follettoonip, kkrizka, pageexec
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 457530    
Attachments: patch vim.eclass to not overconstrain vim's configure script

Description Travis Hansen 2013-02-14 16:58:01 UTC
checking for linking with curses library... OK
checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
      You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
      Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.
 * ERROR: app-editors/vim-core-7.3.762 failed (configure phase):
 *   econf failed


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-02-14 18:18:53 UTC
Maintainers, see blocked bug #457530 for fix.
Comment 2 Ben Longbons 2013-05-04 04:17:27 UTC
Created attachment 347316 [details, diff]
patch vim.eclass to not overconstrain vim's configure script

This works for me.

If you look in vim's configure script, it tries tinfo first, followed by ncurses, then other things, so I don't see why this wouldn't work for everyone.

Note that the comment that is removed in my patch appears to be outdated - the current context looks nothing like what the patch in bug 93970 does.
Comment 3 Rafał Mużyło 2013-05-04 16:28:53 UTC
*** Bug 466800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2013-05-08 08:20:24 UTC
Fixed in CVS.
Comment 5 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2013-05-08 08:39:24 UTC
*** Bug 459554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***