[Buildroot] [Bug 3685] ncurses installation hangs due to old version of tic

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 13:59:28 UTC 2011


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Mike Williams <mike at mikebwilliams.com> wrote:
> All,
>
>> --- Comment #3 from Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org>  ---
>> (In reply to comment #2)
>>> Any specific reason why this has not been included in buildroot yet?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Thomas
>>
>> No, I just haven't looked at it / forgotten about it / not been able to
>> reproduce it locally. Will take a look at it tonight.
>
> I also had this problem. It appears to be caused by the old version
> present on RHEL 5.4, which is what I'm using in our corporate
> environment. If I had to guess, it would be because the tic being
> called is the one on the host system, not the one built by buildroot.

Correct. The patch I proposed avoids that by compiling a host version
of tic in buildroot. This one is later used during the installation of
the target ncurses.

Thomas


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