2011/3/3 Wesley Shields <w...@freebsd.org>: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:21:17PM +0800, Alexander Kojevnikov wrote: >> If devel/ncurses is installed, shells/zsh links to libncursesw from >> that port but doesn't add it as a dependency. >> >> To reproduce: >> >> 1. Install devel/ncurses >> >> 2. (Re)install shells/zsh >> >> 3. Run: >> % ldd `shich zsh` >> libncursesw.so.6.0 => /usr/local/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0 (0x8008f4000) >> ... >> >> 4. pkg_delete devel/ncurses >> >> 5. zsh cannot start: >> % ldd `which zsh` >> libncursesw.so.6.0 => not found (0x0) >> ... >> >> Re-building shells/zsh fixes it: >> >> % ldd `which zsh` >> libncursesw.so.8 => /lib/libncursesw.so.8 (0x8008f5000) >> ... >> >> To sum it up, shells/zsh should either not link to devel/ncurses or >> list it as a dependency if it does. > > Thanks for bringing this up. I noticed it a while ago but forgot to mail > the maintainer. > > While we are on the subject of silent dependencies, mail/mutt-devel > links with ncurses silently too. I've attached the maintainer of > mutt-devel to this mail so he can hopefully work up a patch. > > -- WXS >
For information, about all (almost) the ports that links to ncurses have this problem. A global solution should be found. regards, Bapt _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"