Bugzilla Bug 96107

emerge dialog aborts as it cannot find the ncursesw lib. I suspect that the
standard installation of panther's ncurses lib is compiled w/o wide character
support. Is there a way to make portage aware of this fact as long as ncurses
is not even testing on ppc-macos?

$ emerge dialog
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-util/dialog-1.0.20050206 to /
>>> md5 files   ;-) ChangeLog
>>> md5 files   ;-) dialog-1.0.20040731.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) dialog-1.0.20050206.ebuild
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-dialog-1.0.20040731
>>> md5 files   ;-) files/digest-dialog-1.0.20050206
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) dialog_1.0-20050206.orig.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking dialog_1.0-20050206.orig.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dialog-1.0.20050206/work
>>> Source unpacked.
 * econf: updating dialog-1.0-20050206/config.guess with
/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
 * econf: updating dialog-1.0-20050206/config.sub with
/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=powerpc-apple-darwin --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --with-ncursesw
[...]
checking for multibyte character support... yes
checking for ncursesw header in include-path... curses.h
checking for ncurses version... 5.2.20020209
checking for Gpm_Open in -lgpm... no
checking for initscr... no
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



$ emerge --info
!!! Relying on the shell to locate gcc, this may break
!!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc
!!! profile will fix this
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-darwin/macos/10.3, gcc-3.3, libsystem-7.1-r0, 7.9.0
Power Macintosh)
=================================================================
System uname: 7.9.0 Power Macintosh powerpc
macos-20041118
Python:               [2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)]
distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
dev-lang/python:     [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  [Not Present]
sys-devel/automake:  [Not Present]
sys-devel/binutils:  [Not Present]
sys-devel/libtool:   [Not Present]
virtual/os-headers:  7.1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks sfperms
strict userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="ppc X aqua emacs emboss gdbm libwww ncurses offensive png ppc-macos
readline tetex unicode userland_Darwin kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

Created an attachment (id=61219) [details]
config.log

USE=-unicode emerge dialog does the trick... Everything fine now!

Reopen to resolve properly...

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