Bug 3685

Summary:	ncurses installation hangs due to old version of tic
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:
Attachments:	[PATCH 1 of 2] GENTARGETS: Allow disabling host package installation [PATCH 2 of 2] ncurses: fix hanging installation due to old version of tic

Description Thomas De Schampheleire 2011-05-03 07:16:32 UTC

Created attachment 3271 [details]
[PATCH 1 of 2] GENTARGETS: Allow disabling host package installation

During installation of ncurses, the 'tic' program from the host is used. In
some cases, this version of tic is too old for the data to be processed, and
the installation hangs indefinitely (already reported in July 2010 [1] and later in April 2011 [2]).

Attached to this bug report are two patches that fix the problem (one patch is just a prerequisite for the other).

[1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-July/036100.html
[2] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-April/042763.html

Comment 1 Thomas De Schampheleire 2011-05-03 07:17:26 UTC

Created attachment 3277 [details]
[PATCH 2 of 2] ncurses: fix hanging installation due to old version of tic

Comment 2 Thomas De Schampheleire 2011-07-19 12:42:33 UTC

Any specific reason why this has not been included in buildroot yet?

Thanks, 
Thomas

Comment 3 Peter Korsgaard 2011-07-19 12:45:05 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Any specific reason why this has not been included in buildroot yet?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Thomas

No, I just haven't looked at it / forgotten about it / not been able to reproduce it locally. Will take a look at it tonight.

Comment 4 Peter Korsgaard 2011-08-26 13:06:16 UTC

Thanks, committed part 2 with minor changes. I prefer to not do part 1 this close to the release.