>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Grace <rgrace@aapt.com.au> writes:

    >>>> Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de> 19/06/2002 11:15:42 >>>
    >> One of the gnome parts tries to use ncurses if it's
    >> present/installed, leading to the above undefined reference
    >> (why?). A work a round is to deinstall ncurses for the gnome
    >> built, so it's not used anyway.

    Richard> Fair enough.  That seems to have done the trick.

    Richard> When I removed ncurses-5.2, there were no other packages
    Richard> relying on it anyway, so as far as I'm concerned, it can
    Richard> stay that way. :-)

You can reinstall ncurses after the gnome built!

    Richard> Wouldn't a better work around be to link it if it's
    Richard> installed, so that the complaining component of gnome
    Richard> would be able to use it? I haven't got that much
    Richard> experience with the NetBSD packaging system yet, so I
    Richard> don't know if that's as easy to do as it is to type...
    Richard> ;-)

The solution would be to find out exactly which gnome part checks for
ncurses. -> i) Disable this check or ii) fix the ncurses usage of this
gnome part in pkgsrc.

Markus.