From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Aug 7 01:07:50 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23420DD4BE9 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2017 01:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com (dnvrco-outbound-snat.email.rr.com [107.14.73.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com", Issuer "dnvrco-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09FCE74C10 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2017 01:07:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6722@twc.com) Received: from [74.134.208.22] ([74.134.208.22:25936] helo=localhost) by dnvrco-omsmta03 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.9.48312 r(Core:3.6.9.0)) with ESMTP id 00/15-31699-46DB7895; Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:07:48 +0000 Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:07:44 +0000 Message-ID: <00.15.31699.46DB7895@dnvrco-omsmta03> From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: misc/pinfo fails on not being to use ncurses X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.64.88:25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:07:50 -0000 Last night I attempted to build misc/pinfo on FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE amd64, but it found ncurses not usable for whatever reason. I had something like that previously, about three years ago. Should I include the whole config.log (87869 bytes)? Briefly, error was checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes configure: checking location of readline.h file... Found readline on /usr/local/include/readline/readline.h checking for readline version... 7 checking location of curses.h file... /usr/local/include/ncurses/ncurses.h checking if curses is usable... no configure: error: Curses not found. You need curses to compile pinfo ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to ports@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the "/BETA1/usr/ports/misc/pinfo/work11/pinfo-0.6.10/config.log" including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. a /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static info -g -Ea). *** Error code 1 Stop. I could also ask what other info file viewers there are, better than the GNU info that was formerly part of FreeBSD base system. When I was using Linux Slackware, Konqueror had a good info viewer, but I don't want to have to build and install KDE. I didn't like Emacs' info viewer when I tried that years ago but haven't run Emacs recently. Tom