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What platform are you on, and how did you install ncurses? I just ran this on our Linux cluster and it installed ok:

$ spack install ncurses
...
==> Successfully installed ncurses
[+] /g/g21/gamblin2/src/spack/opt/chaos_5_x86_64_ib/[email protected]/[email protected]
$ ls  /g/g21/gamblin2/src/spack/opt/chaos_5_x86_64_ib/[email protected]/[email protected] 
bin/  include/  lib/  man/  share/

Can you send me build output?

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I'm running the develop branch and I'm on ubuntu 14.04. I'm install tmux, this pulls in ncurses, it errors with this...

** creating formw.pc
** creating menuw.pc
** creating menuw.pc
** creating ncurses++w.pc
** creating ncursesw.pc
** creating ncursesw.pc
** creating panelw.pc
** creating panelw.pc
touch pc-files
/bin/sh -c 'for name in *.pc; do /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $name /usr/lib/pkgconfig/$name; done'
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/lib/pkgconfig/formw.pc’: Permission denied
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/lib/pkgconfig/menuw.pc’: Permission denied
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ncurses++w.pc’: Permission denied
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/lib/pkgconfig/ncursesw.pc’: Permission denied
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/lib/pkgconfig/panelw.pc’: Permission denied
make[1]: *** [install.libs] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
1600 entries written to /home/jtang/develop/spack/opt/unknown_arch/[email protected]/[email protected]/share/terminfo
** built new /home/jtang/develop/spack/opt/unknown_arch/[email protected]/[email protected]/share/terminfo
** sym-linked /home/jtang/develop/spack/opt/unknown_arch/[email protected]/[email protected]/lib/terminfo for compatibility
installing std
installing stdcrt
installing vt100
installing vt300
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/spack-stage/spack-stage-pfBwZ5/ncurses-5.9/misc'
make: *** [install] Error 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/jtang/develop/spack/lib/spack/spack/package.py", line 754, in do_install
    self.install(self.spec, self.prefix)
  File "/home/jtang/develop/spack/var/spack/packages/ncurses/package.py", line 22, in install
    make("install")
  File "/home/jtang/develop/spack/lib/spack/spack/build_environment.py", line 81, in __call__
    super(MakeExecutable, self).__call__(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/jtang/develop/spack/lib/spack/spack/util/executable.py", line 83, in __call__
    % (" ".join(cmd), proc.returncode))
spack.util.executable.ProcessError: command 'make -j4 install' returned error code 2

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Can you try the version on the bugfix/ncurses-pkgconfig branch that I just pushed?

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bugfix/ncurses-pkgconfig works, also I have a temp fix in my clone which removes the 'enable-pc-files' line and that works too.

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Ok, I'll merge the --disable-pc-files version into develop and add a TODO to get the pkgconfig files working. I think I could do this by simply setting PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR in the build environment, but I should do a review of how pkgconfig files are typically handled before I add that stuff.

This is really only an issue for packages outside Spack. As far as Spack is concerned, packages dependent on ncurses will get -L, -I, and -Wl,-rpath args for it anyway, so their builds should find the deps without pkgconfig.

Thanks!

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