Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#13898 closed defect (fixed)

[32719] introduces circular dependency

Reported by: kballard (Lily Ballard) Owned by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.6.0
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

[32719] adds ncurses as a dependency of gettext. Unfortunately, gettext is part of the ncurses dependency tree, which means anybody attempting to install ncurses today without gettext already installed will fail out due to the circular reference.

I suspect the correct order of installation is ncurses, gettext, ncursesw (given that ncursesw is listed as a runtime dependency of ncurses), but I don't actually know, and anyway MacPorts doesn't support that sort of thing.

I would suggest that, for the time being, [32719] should be reverted.

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

The ncursesw dependency on gawk was an attempt to fix a Leopard build issue reported in #13053 but appears to have been unsuccessful so I reverted that dependency in r32727. I'm keeping r32719 since gettext 0.17 really does depend on ncurses, and there is no way to turn that off. (I'm working with the author of gettext to find a way to turn it off.)

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by jmpp@…

Priority: HighNormal

comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

gettext 0.18-pre1 includes a new --disable-curses option. But since ncurses support is "highly recommended" we should probably just leave it in.

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by (none)

Milestone: Port Bugs

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

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