Re: [sup-talk] sup install error

[John Bent <johnbent@lanl.gov>]

Excerpts from Rich Lane's message of Wed Mar 03 15:23:06 -0700 2010:
> Excerpts from John Bent's message of 2010-03-01 16:26:09 -0500:
> > I've been using an old PowerPC Mac.  I got a new Intel one running
> > Leopard (10.6.2) but got an error trying to install sup.  Everything is
> > a fresh install.  The only thing I've done is install the Xcode tools.
> > The error (below sig) looks like a problem with ncurses.  Looking around
> > at the mkmf.log file (attached), I see more issues with curses: no
> > wmove(), no libpdcurses.
> > 
> > The ruby installed is 1.8.7.  gem is 1.3.1.
> > 
> > I recreated this by copying the little test program with the wmove() in
> > it.  When I tried to build it with -lncursesw, it failed because that
> > lib doesn't exist but it did work with -lncurses (without the 'w').  So
> > I just made a symlink:
> > 
> > guava:/usr/lib>ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.dylib /usr/lib/libncursesw.dylib
> > 
> > That works.  Now gem install sup works.  But I'm not sure that's the
> > best fix.  Anyway, it looks like the problem is in gem install ncursesw
> > and not in gem install sup but I thought you might like to know about
> > this.
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > John 
> > 
> > guava:~>gem install sup
> > Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> > ERROR:  Error installing sup:
> >     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> > 
> > /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
> > extconf.rb install sup
> > checking for unistd.h... yes
> > checking for locale.h... yes
> > checking for ncurses.h... yes
> > checking for wmove() in -lncursesw... no
> > checking for wmove() in -lpdcurses... no
> > *** extconf.rb failed ***
> > Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
> > necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
> > details.  You may need configuration options.
> > 
> > Provided configuration options:
> >     --with-opt-dir
> >     --without-opt-dir
> >     --with-opt-include
> >     --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
> >     --with-opt-lib
> >     --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
> >     --with-make-prog
> >     --without-make-prog
> >     --srcdir=.
> >     --curdir
> >     --ruby=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
> >     --with-ncurseswlib
> >     --without-ncurseswlib
> >     --with-pdcurseslib
> >     --without-pdcurseslib
> > extconf.rb:46: ncurses library not found (RuntimeError)
> > 
> > 
> > Gem files will remain installed in
> > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1 for inspection.
> > Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1/gem_make.out
> 
> I'm thinking about changing the gem dependency from ncursesw back to
> plain ncurses to avoid these install failures. Anyone have thoughts on
> this?
>
+1 :)

John
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