This package installs also static libs ".a" please provide do add relative USE. TIA /usr/lib/libreadline.a /usr/lib/libhistory.a /usr/lib/libhistory.so /usr/lib/libreadline.so
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Add USE=static-libs support http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/readline/readline-6.2_p1-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1