Issues cross-compiling ncurses-5.7 on Fedora Core 9

[Philip A. Prindeville]

I'm the lead developer on the Astlinux project.  We recently did a
version bump of ncurses from 5.5 to 5.7.

Immediately we noticed that the "run_tic.sh" stage went into an endless
loop and started using all of the CPU.

We reproduced this on a couple of different platforms (FC9 and Centos5).

A quick search revealed this was a known issue.

I went to the project home page:

http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/

to see if this was a previously filed bug or not, but there doesn't seem
to be a link to bugzilla for ncurses.

$ ps -p30377 -fwwww
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
philipp  30377 30370 97 14:12 pts/30   00:49:14 tic -x -s -o 
/home/philipp/kernel/build_i586/staging_dir/usr/share/terminfo terminfo.tmp
$ 


Repeating "lsof" tells me that the output file is holding steady:

$ lsof -p30377
COMMAND   PID    USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE    SIZE    NODE NAME
tic     30377 philipp  cwd    DIR    8,7    4096 6373754 
/home/philipp/kernel/build_i586/ncurses-5.7/misc
tic     30377 philipp  rtd    DIR    8,2    4096       2 /
tic     30377 philipp  txt    REG    8,2   54200  453657 /usr/bin/tic
tic     30377 philipp  mem    REG    8,2  142216 1128427 /lib64/ld-2.8.so
tic     30377 philipp  mem    REG    8,2   79832  273624 
/usr/lib64/libtic.so.5.6
tic     30377 philipp  mem    REG    8,2 1804104 1128448 /lib64/libc-2.8.so
tic     30377 philipp  mem    REG    8,2  134216 1128692 /lib64/libtinfo.so.5.6
tic     30377 philipp    0u   CHR 136,30              32 /dev/pts/30
tic     30377 philipp    1u   CHR 136,30              32 /dev/pts/30
tic     30377 philipp    2u   CHR 136,30              32 /dev/pts/30
tic     30377 philipp    3r   REG    8,7  952534 6375375 
/home/philipp/kernel/build_i586/ncurses-5.7/misc/terminfo.tmp
$ 


Is there a patch for this issue?

Thanks.