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Bug 468520

Summary: net-analyzer/iftop with ncurses[tinfo] - configure: error: Curses! Foiled again! (Can't find a curses library supporting mvchgat.)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Justin Lecher (RETIRED) <jlec>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 457530    

Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-05-03 20:42:59 UTC
checking for pcap.h... yes
checking for a curses library containing mvchgat... none found
configure: error: Curses! Foiled again!
  (Can't find a curses library supporting mvchgat.)
  Consider installing ncurses.

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/iftop-1.0_pre2/work/iftop-1.0pre2/config.log
 * ERROR: net-analyzer/iftop-1.0_pre2 failed (configure phase):
 *   econf failed
 *
 * Call stack:
 *          ebuild.sh, line  93:  Called src_configure
 *        environment, line 341:  Called __eapi2_src_configure
 *   phase-helpers.sh, line 626:  Called econf
 *   phase-helpers.sh, line 521:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:



$ einfo iftop
Portage 2.2.0_alpha173 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.0-asneeded, glibc-2.17, 3.9.0-lh x86_64)
=================================================================
                        System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.9.0-lh-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2600_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    16345380 total,   3454888 free
KiB Swap:    3987452 total,   3893772 free
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 03 May 2013 12:30:01 +0000
ld GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.23.1) 1.11
ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.6.8-r1, 2.7.4, 3.1.5-r1, 3.2.4, 3.3.0-r1
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.9-r1::science
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.10.2-r2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.4.7, 4.5.4, 4.6.4, 4.7.2-r1, 4.8.0
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.8 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo sunrise bicatali betagarden dummy Neurogeek science Raspberry-Pi-Overlay last-hope g-ctan
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -ftracer   -march=native -frecord-gcc-switches -g -Wimplicit-function-declaration"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/eselect/ /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/nano/ /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/munin-async/.ssh"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -ftracer   -march=native -frecord-gcc-switches -g -Wenum-compare"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" -vt --keep-going --autounmask-write --autounmask --quiet-build=n"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -ftracer   -march=native -frecord-gcc-switches -g"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildsyspkg candy ccache collision-protect compressdebug distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync metadata-transfer multilib-strict news noinfo parallel-fetch parallel-install preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign split-log splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -ftracer   -march=native -frecord-gcc-switches -g"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" /mnt/tmpfs/ http://gentoo.j-schmitz.net/mirror/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"
LANG="en_GB.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--sort-common"
MAKEOPTS="-j12 -l9"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-z -e -9 -v"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/tree"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/local/overlays/sunrise-reviewed /local/overlays/bicatali /local/overlays/betagarden /local/overlays/dummy /local/overlays/neurogeek /local/overlays/sci /local/overlays/gen2pi /local/overlays/lh/ebuilds /local/overlays/g-ctan"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa amd64 avx bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cli cracklib crypt cxx dbus dri fortran gdbm gif gmp gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk iconv icu ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k mmx mmxext modules mudflap multilib ncurses network-cron nls nptl nsplugin numa opengl openmp pam pcre pgo png pulseaudio qt3support raw readline session smp sse sse2 sse2_4way sse2check sse3 sse4 sse41 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssl ssse3 startup-notification tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode vaapi vdpau xinerama zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DRACUT_MODULES="plymouth" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer pdfimport scripting-javascript wiki-publisher nlpsolver" LINGUAS="en" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access auth_basic autoindex browser charset empty_gif fastcgi geo gzip limit_conn limit_req map memcached proxy referer rewrite scgi split_clients ssi upstream_ip_hash userid uwsgi stub_status" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_6 python2_7 python3_1 python3_2 python3_3 pypy1_9 pypy2_0" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64 arm armeb" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64 arm armeb" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
USE_PYTHON="2.6 2.7 3.1 3.2 3.3 2.7-pypy-1.9 2.7-pypy-2.0"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

=================================================================
                        Package Settings
=================================================================

net-analyzer/iftop-1.0_pre2 was built with the following:
USE="(multilib)"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -ftracer -march=corei7-avx -mtune=corei7-avx -mcx16 -msahf -mno-movbe -maes -mpclmul -mpopcnt -mno-abm -mno-lwp -mno-fma -mno-fma4 -mno-xop -mno-bmi -mno-bmi2 -mno-tbm -mavx -mno-avx2 -msse4.2 -msse4.1 -mno-lzcnt --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=8192 -frecord-gcc-switches -g -Wimplicit-function-declaration"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -ftracer -march=corei7-avx -mtune=corei7-avx -mcx16 -msahf -mno-movbe -maes -mpclmul -mpopcnt -mno-abm -mno-lwp -mno-fma -mno-fma4 -mno-xop -mno-bmi -mno-bmi2 -mno-tbm -mavx -mno-avx2 -msse4.2 -msse4.1 -mno-lzcnt --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=8192 -frecord-gcc-switches -g -Wenum-compare"
Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-05-03 21:39:55 UTC
  03 May 2013; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> iftop-1.0_pre2.ebuild,
  +files/iftop-1.0_pre2-tinfo.patch, metadata.xml:
  Add fix for ncurss[tinfo], #468520
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-01-20 13:58:11 UTC
(In reply to Justin Lecher from comment #1)
>   03 May 2013; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> iftop-1.0_pre2.ebuild,
>   +files/iftop-1.0_pre2-tinfo.patch, metadata.xml:
>   Add fix for ncurss[tinfo], #468520

I guess you never sent this upstream?
Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-01-20 14:00:28 UTC
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #2)
> I guess you never sent this upstream?

Probably not :/
Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-01-20 14:05:36 UTC
When you have a patch for 1.0_pre4, please send it upstream.
Comment 5 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-01-20 14:22:00 UTC
Send and bumped.