[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2334: configure --without-curses not honoured

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#2334: configure --without-curses not honoured
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Reporter: strk | Owner: grass-dev@…
     Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Default | Version: 6.4.3
Keywords: | Platform: Unspecified
      Cpu: Unspecified |
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Building after ./configure --without-curses results in lots of errors
eventually originating here:

/usr/src/grass/grass-6.4.3/dist.x86_64-unknown-linux-
gnu/include/grass/vask.h:5:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or
directory

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#2334: configure --without-curses not honoured
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Reporter: strk | Owner: grass-dev@…
     Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Compiling | Version: 6.4.3
Keywords: | Platform: Unspecified
      Cpu: Unspecified |
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Changes (by strk):

  * component: Default => Compiling

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2334#comment:1&gt;
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#2334: configure --without-curses not honoured
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Reporter: strk | Owner: grass-dev@…
     Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Compiling | Version: 6.4.3
Keywords: | Platform: Unspecified
      Cpu: Unspecified |
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Comment(by neteler):

libncurses4.x/5.x is a requirement for GRASS GIS 6:

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/REQUIREMENTS.html

You will need to install (n)curses-dev(el).

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2334#comment:2&gt;
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#2334: configure --without-curses not honoured
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Reporter: strk | Owner: grass-dev@…
     Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Compiling | Version: 6.4.3
Keywords: | Platform: Unspecified
      Cpu: Unspecified |
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Comment(by strk):

In that case shouldn't ./configure exit with an error ?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2334#comment:3&gt;
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#2334: configure --without-curses not honoured
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Reporter: strk | Owner: grass-dev@…
     Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.4
Component: Compiling | Version: 6.4.3
Keywords: | Platform: Unspecified
      Cpu: Unspecified |
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Comment(by glynn):

Replying to [comment:2 neteler]:
> libncurses4.x/5.x is a requirement for GRASS GIS 6:

Sort of. If you build without curses, most of GRASS will still be built.
While the end result is rather "rough", it may well be sufficient for some
people. But where it fails, it won't fail particularly gracefully (some
parts of GRASS simply assume that certain modules will exist, and with
curses disabled, they won't).

Building GRASS 6.x without curses support is sufficiently uncommon that it
isn't worth the (significant) effort of "polishing". --without-curses was
added so that people who could live with the end result had that option,
rather than simply having the configure script fail.

This doesn't apply to GRASS 7, where curses support has been removed
entirely (no configure checks, modules which use curses have been re-
written, disabled, or removed).

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