#13898 closed defect (fixed)
[32719] introduces circular dependency
| Reported by: | kballard (Lily Ballard) | Owned by: | ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.6.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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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 17 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by jmpalacios (Juan Manuel Palacios)
| Priority: | High → Normal |
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comment:3 Changed 17 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.
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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.)