Bugzilla Bug 116954

Emerging dialog fails. Configure is looking for ncursesw (sic). ncurses is
installed.

checking for initscr in -lncursesw... no
checking for -lncursesw in /usr/local/lib... no
checking for -lncursesw in /usr/lib... no
configure: error: Cannot link ncursesw library

!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/dialog-1.0.20050206/work/dialog-1.0-20050206/config.log

!!! ERROR: dev-util/dialog-1.0.20050206 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 495, Exitcode 0
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

mediacentre paul # emerge -pvD ncurses

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r6  -bootstrap -build -debug +doc* +gpm
-minimal -nocxx +unicode* 0 kB

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     15 May  6  2005 /lib/libncurses.so ->
libncurses.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     17 May  6  2005 /lib/libncurses.so.5 ->
libncurses.so.5.4
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 277944 May  6  2005 /lib/libncurses.so.5.4

Created an attachment (id=75666) [details]
Config log from emerging dialog

You recently added unicode to your USE flags and you forgot to emerge --update
--newuse --deep world.

I've just found out that ncursesw is support for wide and multibyte characters
(see http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html). This is available in
ncurses 5.5 (currently in testing)

Sounds like there is a requirement for ncurses 5.5 if the unicode USE flag is
set.

Removing unicode from /etc/make.conf allows me to proceed. (Can't think why I
had it there in the first place...)

Please, search...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67524 ***