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

Quotient Remainder quotientvremainder at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 14:16:42 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 15:59 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> 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.
> 
I also came across this problem a year ago: 
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-July/036100.html
and later proposed a patch:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-December/039670.html




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