[Buildroot] ncurses: build freezes without error with v5.7

[Mitch Davis]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Quotient Remainder
<quotientvremainder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately it doesn't work, still stuck at the same place, though the
> patch has changed the variable list passed.
>
>        DESTDIR=/home/crehill/obair/buildroot.org/output/staging \
>                prefix=/usr \
>                exec_prefix=/usr \
>                bindir=/usr/bin \
>                top_srcdir=.. \
>                srcdir=. \
>                datadir=/usr/share \
>                ticdir=/usr/share/terminfo \
>                source=terminfo.tmp \
>                cross_compiling="yes" \
>                /bin/sh ./run_tic.sh
>        ** Building terminfo database, please wait...
>        Running tic to install /home/crehill/obair/buildroot.org/output/staging/usr/share/terminfo ...

I don't know if this is helpful or not, but can you run strace -p
$(pidof tic) and show the result?  That might tell us what tic is
doing.  In addition, you may consider adding "set -x" to run_tic.sh.
That will tell us how tic is being invoked.

Mitch.