on my athlon-xp, emerging ncurses-5.3-r1 fails. i already have it installed, i just wanted to remerg it. i add the output of emerge ncurses: >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking ncurses-5.3.tar.gz >>> Source unpacked. configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. Configuring NCURSES 5.3 ABI 5 (Tue Feb 4 20:15:34 CET 2003) checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu Configuring for linux-gnu checking for prefix... /usr checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for executable suffix... checking for object suffix... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking version of gcc... gcc (GCC) 3.2.1 20021207 (Gentoo Linux 3.2.1-20021207) checking for gcc... $(CC) checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... -DCC_HAS_PROTOS checking for ldconfig... /sbin/ldconfig checking if you want to ensure bool is consistent with C++... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking version of g++... g++ (GCC) 3.2.1 20021207 (Gentoo Linux 3.2.1-20021207) checking if you want to build C++ binding and demo... yes checking if you want to build with Ada95... no checking if you want to build programs such as tic... yes checking if you wish to install curses.h... yes checking for mawk... no checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking for long file names... yes checking if filesystem supports mixed-case filenames... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for ctags... no checking for etags... no checking for tdlint... no checking for lint... no checking for alint... no checking for man... man checking for loader (symbol LD)... ld checking for archiver (symbol AR)... ar checking for archiver options (symbol AR_OPTS)... rv checking for makeflags variable... checking if you have specified an install-prefix... checking if you want to build libraries with libtool... no checking if you want to build shared libraries... yes checking if you want to build static libraries... yes checking if you want to build debug libraries... no checking if you want to build profiling libraries... no checking for specified models... shared normal checking for default model... shared checking if you want to build a separate terminfo library... no checking if you want to link with dbmalloc for testing... no checking if you want to link with dmalloc for testing... no checking if you want to link with the gpm mouse library... no checking for default loader flags... checking if rpath option should be used... no checking if release/abi version should be used for shared libs... auto checking which gcc option to use... -fPIC checking if you wish to install ncurses overwriting curses... yes checking if external terminfo-database is used... yes checking which terminfo source-file will be installed... ${top_srcdir}/misc/terminfo.src checking for list of fallback descriptions... checking for list of terminfo directories... /usr/share/terminfo checking for default terminfo directory... /usr/share/terminfo checking if big-core option selected... yes checking if you want termcap-fallback support... no checking for remove... yes checking for unlink... yes checking if link/symlink functions work... link symlink checking if tic should use symbolic links... no checking if you want broken-linker support code... checking for type of bool... auto checking for type of ospeed... short checking if tputs should process BSD-style prefix padding... no checking if RCS identifiers should be compiled-in... yes checking format of man-pages... gzip checking for manpage renaming... no checking for manpage symlinks... yes checking for manpage tbl... no checking if you want to build with function extensions... yes checking for extended use of const keyword... no checking if you want $NCURSES_NO_PADDING code... yes checking if you want SIGWINCH handler... yes checking if you want user-definable terminal capabilities like termcap... yes checking if you want all development code... no checking if you want hard-tabs code... no checking if you want to use restrict environment when running as root... yes checking if you want limited support for xmc... no checking if you do not want to assume colors are white-on-black... yes checking if you want hashmap scrolling-optimization code... yes checking if you want colorfgbg code... no checking if you want experimental safe-sprintf code... no checking if you want experimental wide-character code... no checking for terminal capabilities file... Caps checking if you want to display full commands during build... yes checking if you want to see compiler warnings... configure: checking for gcc __attribute__ directives... ... scanf ... printf ... unused ... noreturn checking if you want to enable runtime assertions... no checking for gettimeofday... yes checking if -lm needed for math functions... yes checking if we must define _GNU_SOURCE... yes checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... no checking for sys/ndir.h that defines DIR... no checking for sys/dir.h that defines DIR... no checking for ndir.h that defines DIR... no checking for opendir in -lx... no checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for regular-expression headers... regex.h checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for getopt.h... yes checking for libc.h... no checking for limits.h... no checking for locale.h... yes checking for poll.h... yes checking for sys/bsdtypes.h... no checking for sys/ioctl.h... no checking for sys/param.h... no checking for sys/poll.h... yes checking for sys/select.h... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for sys/times.h... yes checking for ttyent.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking if sys/time.h works with sys/select.h... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking if unsigned literals are legal... yes checking for type of chtype... long checking if external errno is declared... no checking if external errno exists... yes checking if data-only library module links... yes checking for getcwd... yes checking for getegid... yes checking for geteuid... yes checking for getttynam... yes checking for issetugid... no checking for memccpy... yes checking for nanosleep... yes checking for poll... yes checking for remove... (cached) yes checking for select... yes checking for setbuf... yes checking for setbuffer... yes checking for setvbuf... yes checking for sigaction... yes checking for sigvec... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strstr... yes checking for tcgetpgrp... yes checking for times... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for isascii... yes checking whether sigaction needs _POSIX_SOURCE... unknown checking for termio.h... no checking for termios.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking whether termios.h needs _POSIX_SOURCE... no checking for tcgetattr... yes checking for vsscanf function or workaround... vsscanf checking for working mkstemp... yes checking whether setvbuf arguments are reversed... no checking return type of signal handlers... int checking for type sigaction_t... no checking declaration of size-change... no checking for memmove... yes checking if poll really works... yes checking for stdbool.h... yes checking for builtin bool type... no checking for library stdc++... no checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for typeinfo... yes checking for stdbool.h... (cached) yes checking for builtin bool type... yes checking for size of bool... unsigned char checking for special defines needed for etip.h... none checking if g++ accepts parameter initialization... no checking for strstream.h... no checking if g++ supports vscan function... stdio checking for library subsets... termlib+base+ext_funcs checking default library suffix... checking default library-dependency suffix... .so checking default object directory... obj_s checking c++ library-dependency suffix... .a checking where we will install curses.h... ${prefix}/include checking for src modules... ncurses progs tack panel menu form configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating include/MKterm.h.awk config.status: creating include/curses.head config.status: creating include/termcap.h config.status: creating include/unctrl.h config.status: creating misc/run_tic.sh config.status: creating man/Makefile config.status: creating include/Makefile config.status: creating ncurses/Makefile config.status: creating progs/Makefile config.status: creating tack/Makefile config.status: creating panel/Makefile config.status: creating menu/Makefile config.status: creating form/Makefile config.status: creating test/Makefile config.status: creating misc/Makefile config.status: creating c++/Makefile config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating include/ncurses_cfg.h Appending rules for shared model (ncurses: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for normal model (ncurses: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for shared model (progs: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for normal model (progs: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for shared model (tack: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for normal model (tack: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for shared model (panel: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for normal model (panel: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for shared model (menu: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for normal model (menu: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for shared model (form: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for normal model (form: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for shared model (test: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for normal model (test: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for shared model (c++: termlib+base+ext_funcs) Appending rules for normal model (c++: termlib+base+ext_funcs) creating headers.sh ** Configuration summary for NCURSES 5.3 20021012: bin directory: /usr/bin lib directory: /lib include directory: /usr/include man directory: /usr/share/man terminfo directory: /usr/share/terminfo cd man && make DESTDIR="" all make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r1/work/ncurses-5.3/man' sh ./MKterminfo.sh ./terminfo.head ./../include/Caps ./terminfo.tail >terminfo.5 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r1/work/ncurses-5.3/man' cd include && make DESTDIR="" all make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r1/work/ncurses-5.3/include' cat curses.head >curses.h AWK=gawk sh ./MKkey_defs.sh ./Caps >>curses.h sh -c 'if test "chtype" = "cchar_t" ; then cat ./curses.wide >>curses.h ; fi' cat ./curses.tail >>curses.h sh ./MKhashsize.sh ./Caps >hashsize.h AWK=gawk sh ./MKncurses_def.sh ./ncurses_defs >ncurses_def.h AWK=gawk sh ./MKparametrized.sh ./Caps >parametrized.h gawk -f MKterm.h.awk ./Caps > term.h sh ./edit_cfg.sh ../include/ncurses_cfg.h term.h ** edit: HAVE_TCGETATTR 1 ** edit: HAVE_TERMIOS_H 1 ** edit: HAVE_TERMIO_H 0 ** edit: BROKEN_LINKER 0 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r1/work/ncurses-5.3/include' cd ncurses && make DESTDIR="" all make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r1/work/ncurses-5.3/ncurses' sh ./base/MKlib_gen.sh "gcc -E -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -DNDEBUG -D_GNU_SOURCE -I. -I../include" "gawk" generated <../include/curses.h | \ fgrep undef >../include/nomacros.h gawk -f ./tinfo/MKnames.awk ./../include/Caps cat namehdr boolnames boolfnames numnames numfnames strnames strfnames nameftr >names.c cat namehdr boolcodes numcodes strcodes codeftr >codes.c rm -f namehdr nameftr codeftr boolnames boolfnames boolcodes numnames numfnames numcodes strnames strfnames strcodes gcc -o make_hash -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I../ncurses -I. -DNDEBUG -D_GNU_SOURCE -I. -I../include -DMAIN_PROGRAM ./tinfo/comp_hash.c In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36, from ../ncurses/curses.priv.h:94, from tinfo/comp_hash.c:40: /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25:26: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:313, from ../ncurses/curses.priv.h:115, from tinfo/comp_hash.c:40: /usr/include/bits/sigcontext.h:28:29: asm/sigcontext.h: No such file or directory In file included from tinfo/comp_hash.c:68: ../ncurses/tinfo/doalloc.c: In function `_nc_doalloc': ../ncurses/tinfo/doalloc.c:52: `ENOMEM' undeclared (first use in this function) ../ncurses/tinfo/doalloc.c:52: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once ../ncurses/tinfo/doalloc.c:52: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [make_hash] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r1/work/ncurses-5.3/ncurses' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 42, Exitcode 2 !!! parallel make failed Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 to / >>> md5 ;-) ncurses-5.3.tar.gz
he was missing linux-headers