configure of vile on leopard 10.5.3 failed: -lncurses not found

[tomhirashima@…]

$ sudo port install vile
--->  Fetching vile
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for vile
--->  Extracting vile
--->  Configuring vile
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_editors_vile/work/vile-9.5" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-perl --with-ncurses --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 1
Command output: checking if we may include sys/resource.h with sys/wait.h... no
checking for termio.h... (cached) no
checking for termios.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking whether termios.h needs _POSIX_SOURCE... no
checking declaration of size-change... yes
checking for file-pointer ready definition... ( (p)->_r > 0)
checking for <wctype.h> and functions... yes
checking for library containing wctype... none required
checking for long file names... yes
checking for restartable reads on pipes... yes
checking whether setpgrp takes no argument... yes
checking whether getpgrp takes no argument... yes
checking if killpg is needed... no
checking if external errno is declared... yes
checking if external errno exists... yes
checking if external sys_nerr is declared... yes
checking if external sys_nerr exists... yes
checking if external sys_errlist is declared... yes
checking if external sys_errlist exists... yes
checking for screen type... termcap
checking if you want to use ncurses... yes
checking for ncurses header in include-path... ncurses/curses.h
checking for ncurses version... 5.6.20061217
checking for Gpm_Open in -lgpm... no
checking for initscr... no
checking for initscr in -lncurses... no
checking for -lncurses in /opt/local/lib... no
checking for -lncurses in /usr/lib... no
configure: error: Cannot link ncurses library

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

vile does not declare dependency on ncurses while it obviously should.

Workaround:

$ sudo port install ncurses vile

[tomhirashima@…]

i already seem to have ncurses installed. issuing the workaround command returns "Skipping org.macports.activate (ncurses ) since this port is already active". have tried this on two different machines with similar ports installed (wget and optipng being the only ones, with dependencies).

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Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Added the missing deps in r72212. The port now configures successfully, though it still fails to build for other reasons.