Bugzilla Bug 47767

aemerge libreadline-java make fails, but installs anyway:
...
gcc -shared org_gnu_readline_Readline.o -L/usr/lib/termcap  -lreadline -ltermcap -lhistory -o ../../libJavaReadline.so
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -ltermcap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [../../libJavaReadline.so] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/work/libreadline-java-0.8.0/src/native'
make[2]: *** [JavaReadline] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/work/libreadline-java-0.8.0/src/native'
make[1]: *** [native] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/work/libreadline-java-0.8.0/src'
make: *** [build-native] Error 2

>>> Install libreadline-java-0.8.0 into /var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/image/ category dev-java
/usr/lib/portage/bin/dolib.so: *.so does not exist
man:
prepallstrip:
strip: 
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/image/
...



emerge unmerge libreadline-java && aemerge libtermcap-compat libreadline-java



...
gcc -shared org_gnu_readline_Readline.o -L/usr/lib/termcap  -lreadline -ltermcap -lhistory -o ../../libJavaReadline.so
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/work/libreadline-java-0.8.0/src/native'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/work/libreadline-java-0.8.0/src/native'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/work/libreadline-java-0.8.0/src'

>>> Install libreadline-java-0.8.0 into /var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/image/ category dev-java
man:
prepallstrip:
strip: 
strip: 
   usr/lib/libJavaReadline.so
making executable: /usr/lib/libJavaReadline.so
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/libreadline-java-0.8.0/image/
...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.aemerge libreadline-java
2.check the final gcc object linking
3.

Actual Results:  
usr/lib/libJavaReadline.so is not created

Expected Results:  
usr/lib/libJavaReadline.so is installed

System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/
rsync://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/
ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm
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moznocompose moznoirc mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png
ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd
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Created an attachment (id=29235) [edit]
patch to the ebuild

add >=sys-libs/libtermcap-compat-1.2.3-r1 to $DEPEND

Thanks, fixed in portage now.