Mac OS X 10.8.3 build issue about sup

[gauteh]

Did you install the ncursesw-sup gem before installing ncurses with brew?

What version of ncurses do you have?

[stbose]

I wasn't sure about the order so I gem uninstall ncursesw-sup, cloned the git, and ran bundle install. during the dependency check, it re-installed the ncursesw-sup gem and successfully built. but, i got the same error at runtime.

The homebrew install of ncurses is 5.9.

[gauteh]

Hm, could you try to build the ncursesw-sup gem from source: https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/ncursesw-ruby

after clone:

ruby extconf.rb
make
gem build ncursesw.gemspec
gem install ncursesw-sup-1.3.1.1.gem

please post the output of everything. The missing type is part of form.h which hopefully shows up in extconf.rb output.

Also: please verify that the homebrew version of ncurses is being used, try ncursesw5-config --version or similar and check the path of the binary.

[stbose]

I got it to work. I built the gem as you suggested, but still no luck. It turns out I had a ncursesw (1.2.4) gem installed on my system-- once I uninstalled that, then sup ran fine.

Thanks for the help.

[stbose]

Sorry to ask again-- I got sup built and installed on Mac OS X, and it loads okay, but some of the features have a bit of difficulty. For instance, if you press / it shows the prompt to search. When you type any characters, they do not appear and when is pressed, sup crashes with the following dump

--- NoMethodError from thread: main
undefined method `unpost_form' for nil:NilClass
~/tmp/sup/lib/sup/textfield.rb:57:in `deactivate'
~/tmp/sup/lib/sup/buffer.rb:622:in `block in ask'
<internal:prelude>:10:in `synchronize'
~/tmp/sup/lib/sup/buffer.rb:27:in `sync'
~/tmp/sup/lib/sup/buffer.rb:621:in `ask'
~/tmp/sup/lib/sup/util.rb:573:in `method_missing'
~/tmp/sup/lib/sup/modes/scroll_mode.rb:82:in `search_in_buffer'
~/tmp/sup/lib/sup/mode.rb:59:in `handle_input'
~/sup/lib/sup/buffer.rb:274:in `handle_input'
bin/sup:266:in `<module:Redwood>'
bin/sup:74:in `<main>'

Please let me know fi this is insufficient information to debug. I will provide more.

[gauteh]

No problem, this is a different error. So thanks for posting it. It should however be in a separate bug report. It seems to be a ncurses problem. Are you sure you got the latest ncursesw-sup gem installed, and if you run rvm or similar, could you please try and run brew doctor before running sup and try again (to make sure the brew ncurses version is being used)?