Re: bash crashes when ncurses install libtinfo

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Dennis Heuer wrote:

> hello
>
> i'm not shure if this can be changed but asking costs nothing ;)
>
> i tried to install a fresh ncurses from source. while "make install"
> installed libtinfo, bash crashed. starting a new bash was not possible.
> i was able to repair the system by copying over the new libtinfo* files
> manually. however, can it be that "make install" deletes and copies in
> two steps instead of substituting in one step? possibly, there's a step
> inbetween that needs the shell's "tinfo-capabilities" and crashes it?

There was some issue in 5.6 which is supposedly fixed in the rollup patch.
Are you installing 5.6 or the patched version?

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