Re: Updating emacs fails

> On 23/10/2011 09:03, John R. Levine wrote:
>>>    checking for tparm in -lncurses... no
>>>
>>> but that's not correct.  libncurses should certainly contain that
>>> symbol.  I get a 'yes' there on my stable/8 machine.  As -lncurses is
>>> part of your LDFLAGS ... hmmm... do you have libncurses on your system
>>> anywhere other than in /lib ?
>>
>> I have the ncurses-5.9 package installed from ports.  Several gnome
>> programs depend on it:
>>
>> pkg_delete: package 'ncurses-5.9' is required by these other packages
>> and may not be deinstalled:
>> aalib-1.4.r5_6
>> gnome-games-2.32.1_2
>> guile-1.8.8
>> libcdio-0.82_2
>> libxine-1.1.19_7
>
> Interesting.  Can you try moving /usr/local/lib/libncurses.* and
> /usr/local/include/ncurses.h aside temporarily and then rebuild emacs?
> If that works, then looks like you've found a bug in the editors/emacs
> port, which should be reported to the port's maintainer.

Yup, that fixed it.  I'll file a bug report.  I tried rebuilding some of 
the packages that allegedly depend on the ncurses port, and they all 
seemed to work OK, so the right solution may be to deprecate the ncurses 
port or fold it into the mainline system.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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