On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Karl Schudt <[email protected]> wrote: > I installed Sup on Opensuse, and it seems to run fine, indexing my gmail > account. But when I type a "\" to search, it crashes. > > > --- NoMethodError from thread: main > undefined method `new_field' for Ncurses::Form:Module
I had this problem on my OpenSUSE 11.1 machines, and I finally figured out the solution today. The problem is that in OpenSUSE, certain ncurses header files aren't found in /usr/include like in other distros. Specifically, panel.h, form.h, and menu.h are in /usr/include/ncurses, not /usr/include. Strangely, OpenSUSE chose to make a symlink to ncurses/ncurses.h in /usr/include, but did not provide symlinks for the other files. The result was that when extconf.rb for the ncursesw gem was executed, it could not find these header files. You can see that at the bottom of the output of extconf.rb if you run it manually: checking for the panel library... checking for panel.h... no checking for the form library... checking for form.h... no checking for the menu library... checking for menu.h... no So I fixed it by manually creating the missing symlinks: cd /usr/include ln -s ncurses/form.h ln -s ncurses/panel.h ln -s ncurses/menu.h Then I reran 'gem install ncursesw'. It wasn't enough to do a 'make clean && make && make install' in the ncursesw gem source directory. _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
