Bug 428128 – =sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12 USE="static ncurses" - USE=ncurses but curses not found

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 427600
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Yixun Lan 2012-07-26 04:42:06 UTC]

config.status: creating util/grub-image
config.status: creating util/grub-install
config.status: creating util/grub-md5-crypt
config.status: creating util/grub-terminfo
config.status: creating util/grub-set-default
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
 * ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12 failed (compile phase):
 *   USE=ncurses but curses not found
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *     ebuild.sh, line  85:  Called src_compile
 *   environment, line 4033:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *       use ncurses && ! grep -qs "HAVE_LIBCURSES.*1" config.h && die "USE=ncur
ses but curses not found";


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="-static-libs" emerge ncurses
2. USE="ncurses static" emerge =sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12 
3.
Actual Results:  
to merge  =sys-boot/grub-0.97-r12 with "ncurses static" USEs, we must aware the dependency.


to fix the problem, either
1) merge the ncurses with "static-libs" USE enabled manually
2) or honor the USE dependency in grub ebuild

[Comment 1 Yixun Lan 2012-07-26 04:47:37 UTC]

build ncurses without "static-libs"
tobox sys-boot # qlist ncurses |grep "\.a"
/usr/lib/libncurses++w.a
/usr/lib/libncurses++.a
/usr/share/terminfo/i/iTerm.app

build ncurses with "static-libs"

(chroot) # qlist ncurses |grep "\.a"
/usr/lib/libncurses.a
/usr/lib/libncursesw.a
/usr/lib/libformw.a
/usr/lib/libform.a
/usr/lib/libpanel.a
/usr/lib/libmenu.a
/usr/lib/libmenuw.a
/usr/lib/libncurses++.a
/usr/lib/libpanelw.a
/usr/lib/libncurses++w.a
/usr/lib/libcurses.a
/usr/share/terminfo/i/iTerm.app

[Comment 2 Yixun Lan 2012-07-26 04:51:07 UTC]

Created attachment 319268 [details]
make grub "static" USE aware ncurses

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-07-26 05:01:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created attachment 319268 [details]
> make grub "static" USE aware ncurses

The .a files are not runtime dependencies, so you should be using DEPEND instead of RDEPEND for the [static-libs] dep

[Comment 4 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) 2012-07-26 16:27:38 UTC]

Hi, please mark this bug as duplicate. Similar bug was closed some time ago (Bug 427600).

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-07-26 17:24:51 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 427600 ***