libedit: error: libcurses or libncurses are required

[maartenversteegh@…]

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade libedit (well, python really) and it keeps failing as in log. Have done clean and self-update.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Hmm, the main.log shows that the configure phase of the x86_64 part of the universal build went fine, specifically it said:

:info:configure checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
:info:configure checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
:info:configure checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... yes

But the i386 part failed with:

:info:configure checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
:info:configure checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
:info:configure checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
:info:configure checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
:info:configure checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
:info:configure checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
:info:configure configure: error: libcurses or libncurses are required!

This suggests that maybe your ncurses port is not installed universal, or that something went wrong during its installation. Rebuilding the ncurses port may be needed. Before you do that though, could you please attach the file /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_libedit/libedit/work/libedit-20120601-3.0-i386/config.log? Also, what is the output of the commands:

port -v installed ncurses
lipo -info /opt/local/lib/libtermcap.dylib

[maartenversteegh@…]

Thanks! Attached config.log.

Output from port -v installed ncurses:

The following ports are currently installed:
  ncurses @5.9_1+universal (active) platform='darwin 10' archs='i386 x86_64'

Output from lipo -info /opt/local/lib/libtermcap.dylib:

Non-fat file: /opt/local/lib/libtermcap.dylib is architecture: x86_64

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Ok, that confirms that, although MacPorts believes it has installed ncurses universal, it hasn't. I confirmed on my Snow Leopard machine that ncurses can be properly built universal, and I also checked the pre-built archive on our packages server and it's fine too, so something must have gone wrong on your system. Please try rebuilding ncurses:

sudo port clean ncurses
sudo port -n upgrade --force ncurses

Does that change the output of the lipo command above? If so, can you then clean libedit and try building it again?

[maartenversteegh@…]

Rebuilding ncurses did the trick. lipo now shows i386 as well and the rebuild of libedit seems to be going well (lots of dependencies rebuilding, so taking a while)

Thanks so much for the help!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Great! Glad that worked.