Compiling vim-core-6.1-r2 just fails ...
Created attachment 5573 [details] The emerge output Here's my emerge output. Good luck.
*** Bug 10575 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
merging libtermcap-compat fixes this. This is why some i'd talked to yesterday had had no problems with the vim-core-6.1-r2.ebuild. My guess is that libtermcap-compat was present on their systems.
What version of ncurses ?
here: ncurses-5.2.20020511-r3