Bug 74130 – dialog 1.0.20040731 does not build because of missing libncursesw

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Joseph Wenninger 2004-12-11 13:13:16 UTC]

Hi
I just did an emerge sync and now I can't do an emerge -u world, since the dialog package complains about amissing libncursesw. I really do have only a libncurses. Which package should the missing library be in ? I even tried a emerge -u -D world, same result. I do not use the ~amd64 keyword on this machine.
I'm thankfull for any help
Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2004-12-11 15:24:18 UTC]

Marius make sense to you?

Joseph please attach the compile error(s) text.

[Comment 2 Joseph Wenninger 2004-12-11 16:48:41 UTC]

Created attachment 45785 [details]
build error

[Comment 3 Joseph Wenninger 2004-12-11 16:48:57 UTC]

Created attachment 45786 [details]
used make.conf

[Comment 4 Benjamin Schindler (RETIRED) 2004-12-12 13:55:26 UTC]

Reemerge ncurses with unicode support and let us know whether the problem persists.
Before you do that however, you might consider creating a binary package of ncurses before you do that (qpkg ncurses). I completely messed my system when once recompiled ncurses without unicode support
The libncursesw is the wide-character library, and thus related to unicode.
The different way to solve this is to emerge dialog without unicode-support

[Comment 5 Mike Doty (RETIRED) 2004-12-12 13:58:15 UTC]

don't you mean quickpkg and not qpkg?

[Comment 6 Benjamin Schindler (RETIRED) 2004-12-12 23:50:48 UTC]

Uhm... yes, quickpkg ncurses ;)

[Comment 7 Joseph Wenninger 2004-12-13 02:44:58 UTC]

Hi Thanks. Reemerging ncurses helped. Though I had the unicode flag set from the beginning on that system, but looks like I have been mistaken. Would be nice if the portage system would recognize use flag changes and resolve them by itself though, although I guess that could be complicated and in some cases not desired

[Comment 8 David Li 2004-12-28 13:45:27 UTC]

Uh oh, I have bug #75927. Together with this bug = bad news.

[Comment 9 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2005-01-20 08:13:18 UTC]

*** Bug 78757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 10 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2005-01-20 08:13:40 UTC]

look at the new dupe

[Comment 11 Alexander Simonov 2005-01-31 13:42:23 UTC]

Do you have installed ncurses with unicode support?
Can you entered ls -l /lib/libncurses* and post there?
If you have ncurses with unicode support you have output like this:
devil@gentoo ~ $ ls -l /lib/libncurses*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     19 Окт 19 00:46 /lib/libncurses.so -> /lib/libncursesw.so
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     21 Окт 19 00:46 /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> /lib/libncursesw.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     23 Окт 19 00:46 /lib/libncurses.so.5.4 -> /lib/libncursesw.so.5.4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     16 Окт 19 00:46 /lib/libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     18 Окт 19 00:46 /lib/libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.4
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 299780 Окт 19 00:45 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.4

[Comment 12 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2005-03-22 07:39:15 UTC]

this one seems to be fixed, onyl 75927 is remaining