cgdb: configure error: cgdb needs ncurses/curses to build

[chaynes@…]

sudo port install cgdb resulted in output including

Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed

and log including

:info:configure shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_cgdb/work/cgdb-0.6.5" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --infodir=/opt/local/share/info --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 1
:error:configure Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed
:debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: shell command failed
    while executing
"$procedure $targetname"

macports installed yesterday under Leopard.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

It works fine here and I don't see any information in this report that we can act on (no actual specific error message shown). ("shell command failed" is what you will see when pretty much any error occurs with any port in MacPorts.) Please "sudo port clean cgdb" and try again; if it still fails, attach the main.log (compressing it first if it is large).

[chaynes@…]

cleaned and rerun as requested with same result. main.log attached as requested.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Do you have the ncurses port installed? You should already, since it is a listed dependency of cgdb. So I wonder if your ncurses is properly installed. You could try rebuilding it. ("sudo port -n upgrade --force ncurses")

[chaynes@…]

That did it. Thanks a lot!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Hm, ok. Glad you got it working, but unsure why your existing ncurses wasn't ok to begin with.