Summary:	ASTERISK-13311: make menuselect exits with install ncurses
Reporter:	Mike Thomas (mthomasslo)	Labels:
Date Opened:	2009-01-06 13:08:01.000-0600	Date Closed:	2009-01-09 08:52:58.000-0600
Priority:	Minor	Regression?	No
Status:	Closed/Complete	Components:	Core/BuildSystem
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Description:	The most recent branch 1.4 initially fails to complete make menuselect.  It suggests that ncurses is missing.  Re-running make select gives the same response.  If the build is redone completely, beggining with a "make clean", it will ocasionally complete and bring up the menu. Older SVN branch 1.4 and releases up to at least 1.4.22 compile properly, as ncurses and ncurses-devel (ver 5.5) are definetly installed. ****** ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ****** This behavior is reproduceable on RHEL5 32 bit(2.6.18-8) and CENTOS 5.0 64 bit(2.6.18-8)
Comments:	By: Mark Michelson (mmichelson) 2009-01-06 15:50:27.000-0600 FYI, this problem came about as a result of revision 232 of the menuselect branch. Reverting that appears to fix the error. This is just a workaround for the real problem, though. By: Sean Bright (seanbright) 2009-01-06 16:27:18.000-0600 I think it was revision 437. By: Mark Michelson (mmichelson) 2009-01-06 17:06:10.000-0600 Ah, you're right. 232 was the previous rev to that one, so reverting to rev 232 would fix the problem. I got mixed up. I can't point out exactly where the problem is, but it appears that this is a reliable way to reproduce the error: make distclean && ./configure && make menuselect Taking a look at what's happening, here's what I see: 1) Some files get removed from the Asterisk source directory 2) menuselect's configure script is run (?!) 3) Some files are removed from menuselect and its subdirectories 4) Steps 2 and 3 are repeated (?!) 5) menuselect/makeopts is removed (This appears to be key) 6) Some more files are removed 7) ./configure starts and ends 8) make menuselect begins 9) a shortened version of menuselect's configure script is run. 10) menuselect's Makefile is executed. Since there's no makeopts file, it is not included, and so menuselect_stub.c is built instead of menuselect_curses.c 11) When menuselect is executed, we get the stub telling us to install ncurses Now, the kicker is that after all of this is over, there *is* a makeopts file in the /menuselect directory, so it got created...sometime. If you make a trivial change to the menuselect source like adding an extra blank line to menuselect.c, then make will know that it needs to rebuild menuselect when you run `make menuselect` and the problem will go away. By: Jeremy Burton (jedi98) 2009-01-06 17:45:41.000-0600 Don't know if this helps at all but this problem is also in 1.4.23-rc3 (from tarball) and can be circumvented by adding the "--with-ncurses" switch to ./configure By: Mark Michelson (mmichelson) 2009-01-09 08:52:58.000-0600 The commit which caused this problem has been reverted. The original issue that commit was meant to fix has been re-opened, and so this may be closed now.