Commit bf446513 authored by Thomas De Schampheleire's avatar Thomas De Schampheleire Committed by Peter Korsgaard
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ncurses: fix hanging installation due to old version of tic 

Closes #3685

During installation of ncurses, the 'tic' program from the host is used. In
some cases, this version of tic is too old for the data to be processed, and
the installation hangs indefinitely (already reported in July 2010, see [1])

With this patch, a static version of tic is built and used during the
installation step of target ncurses. This method is based on a similar fix
in Gentoo Linux (see [2] for the report and [3] for the solution).

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-July/036100.html
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249363#c25
[3] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-5.7-r2.ebuild



[Peter: Install into host, don't tweak path]
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
parent cb6c2c42

CHANGES

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@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ 
	(broken).



	Updated/fixed packages: barebox, directfb, libsoup,

	libxml-parser-perl, mtd, python, ti-utils, udev, usbmount,

	util-linux, xfont_font-misc-misc

	libxml-parser-perl, mtd, ncurses, python, ti-utils, udev,

	usbmount, util-linux, xfont_font-misc-misc



	Issues resolved (http://bugs.uclibc.org):



	#3685: ncurses installation hangs due to old version of tic

	#4093: Grub fails to install bz2 patch after conversion to...



2011.08-rc1, Released August 4th, 2011:

package/ncurses/ncurses.mk

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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ 
NCURSES_VERSION = 5.7

NCURSES_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/ncurses

NCURSES_INSTALL_STAGING = YES

NCURSES_DEPENDENCIES = host-ncurses



NCURSES_CONF_OPT = \

	--with-shared \
@@ -120,4 +121,18 @@ define NCURSES_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS 
	$(NCURSES_INSTALL_TARGET_DEVFILES)

endef # NCURSES_INSTALL_TARGET_CMDS



#

# On systems with an older version of tic, the installation of ncurses hangs

# forever. To resolve the problem, build a static version of tic on host

# ourselves, and use that during installation.

#

define HOST_NCURSES_BUILD_CMDS

	$(MAKE1) -C $(@D) sources

	$(MAKE) -C $(@D)/progs tic

endef



HOST_NCURSES_CONF_OPT = \

	--without-shared



$(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS,package,ncurses))

$(eval $(call AUTOTARGETS,package,ncurses,host))