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This PKGBUILD verifies the authenticity of the source via PGP signatures which are not part of the Arch Linux keyring. In order to complete the process it is necessary to import the key(s) from the ‘validpgpkeys’ array into the user’s keyring before calling makepkg. There is a helpful article explaining this process by one of Arch Linux's developers located here: http://allanmcrae.com/2015/01/two-pgp-keyrings-for-package-management-in-arch-linux/

Instructions on importing keys from a keyserver and how to automate the retrieval process can be found in the Arch Linux wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG#Use_a_keyserver This article also contains helpful information describing the installation of GnuPG, its configuration and usage.

Execute the following to import keys using gpg:

gpg --recv-keys <KEYID - See 'validpgpkeys' array in PKGBUILD>

The PGP signature check can be skipped by passing --skippgpcheck to makepkg.

Consult the makepkg manual page for a full list of options. [https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/makepkg.8.html]

What's wrong with that package? I can't understand why some packages need it although there are already exists newer version of ncurses package in repositories.

What's the problem with pgp sign? It says, that i have already key 702353E0F7E48EDB and its not changed. But package sign not valid. It's a developer fault or mantainer?

Hey guys,

Elicacio's solution worked for me as well!

Thanks for that!

Would it be possible to update this to 6.1 ? I've no color output in gradle without this, and with the current version it just crashes...

Here's a corrected PKGBUILD (I've got colored output on gradle with this)

# Maintainer:  Bartłomiej Piotrowski <bpiotrowski@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: judd <jvinet@zeroflux.org>

pkgname=ncurses5-compat-libs
_pkgname=ncurses
pkgver=6.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc='System V Release 4.0 curses emulation library, ABI 5'
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url='http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html'
license=(MIT)
depends=(glibc gcc-libs sh)
provides=(libtinfo5)
conflicts=(libtinfo5)
source=(https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-$pkgver.tar.gz{,.sig})
md5sums=('98c889aaf8d23910d2b92d65be2e737a'
         'SKIP')
validpgpkeys=('C52048C0C0748FEE227D47A2702353E0F7E48EDB')  # Thomas Dickey

build() {
  cd ${_pkgname}-${pkgver}

  ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man \
    --with-shared --with-normal --without-debug --without-ada --enable-widec \
    --disable-pc-files --with-cxx-binding --with-cxx-shared --with-abi-version=5
  make
}

package() {
  cd ${_pkgname}-${pkgver}
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install.libs
  rm -rf "$pkgdir/usr/include/" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/pkgconfig" \
    "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/*.so

  # fool packages looking to link to non-wide-character ncurses libraries
  for lib in ncurses ncurses++ form panel menu; do
    ln -s /usr/lib/lib${lib}w.so.5 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so.5"
  done
  ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5"

  # install license, rip it from the readme
  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
  grep -B 100 '$Id' README > "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"

}

Could somebody give a check to the symbol versioning of libtinfo.so.5 ? https://stackoverflow.com/a/38851073/5994170

It's quite annoying to have info warnings spawned millions of times in console during linking.

EDIT: fixed by adding --with-versioned-syms configure switch

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 416 curl can't download ncurses-6.0-20170902.tgz

Thank you for your very detailed comment.

Thank you for the repo but the package itself is not building.

Seems that the copyright section in the README (currently ripped as LICENSE) is rather out of date; however there exists also a COPYING file, probably better to use that.