# emerge ncurses ... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar ../lib/libncursesw.a ../objects/hardscroll.o ../objects/hashmap.o ../objects/lib_addch.o . ./objects/lib_addstr.o ../objects/lib_beep.o ../objects/lib_bkgd.o ../objects/lib_box.o ../objects/lib_chgat.o ../ objects/lib_clear.o ../objects/lib_clearok.o ../objects/lib_clrbot.o ../objects/lib_clreol.o ../objects/lib_color.o ../objects/lib_colorset.o ../objects/lib_delch.o ../objects/lib_delwin.o ../objects/lib_echo.o ../objects/lib_endwin.o ../objects/lib_erase.o ../objects/lib_flash.o ../objects/lib_gen.o ../objects/lib_getch.o ../objects/lib_getstr.o ../objects/lib_hline.o ../objects/lib_immedok.o ../objects/lib_inchstr.o ../objects/lib_initscr.o ../objects/lib_insch.o ../objects/lib_insdel.o ../objects/lib_insnstr.o ../objects/lib_instr.o ../objects/lib_isendwin.o ../objects/lib_leaveok.o ../objects/lib_mouse.o ../objects/lib_move.o ../objects/lib_mvcur.o ../objects/lib_mvwin.o ../objects/lib_newterm.o ../objects/lib_newwin.o ../objects/lib_nl.o ../objects/lib_overlay.o ../objects/lib_pad.o ../objects/lib_printw.o ../objects/lib_redrawln.o ../objects/lib_refresh.o ../objects/lib_restart.o ../objects/lib_scanw.o ../objects/lib_screen.o ../objects/lib_scroll.o ../objects/lib_scrollok.o ../objects/lib_scrreg.o ../objects/lib_set_term.o ../objects/lib_slk.o ../objects/lib_slkatr_set.o ../objects/lib_slkatrof.o ../objects/lib_slkatron.o ../objects/lib_slkatrset.o ../objects/lib_slkattr.o ../objects/lib_slkclear.o ../objects/lib_slkcolor.o ../objects/lib_slkinit.o ../objects/lib_slklab.o ../objects/lib_slkrefr.o ../objects/lib_slkset.o ../objects/lib_slktouch.o ../objects/lib_touch.o ../objects/lib_tstp.o ../objects/lib_ungetch.o ../objects/lib_vidattr.o ../objects/lib_vline.o ../objects/lib_wattroff.o ../objects/lib_wattron.o ../objects/lib_winch.o ../objects/lib_window.o ../objects/nc_panel.o ../objects/safe_sprintf.o ../objects/tty_update.o ../objects/varargs.o ../objects/memmove.o ../objects/vsscanf.o ../objects/lib_freeall.o ../objects/charable.o ../objects/lib_add_wch.o ../objects/lib_box_set.o ../objects/lib_cchar.o ../objects/lib_get_wch.o ../objects/lib_erasewchar.o ../objects/lib_get_wstr.o ../objects/lib_hline_set.o ../objects/lib_in_wch.o ../objects/lib_in_wchnstr.o ../objects/lib_ins_wch.o ../objects/lib_inwstr.o ../objects/lib_pecho_wchar.o ../objects/lib_slk_wset.o ../objects/lib_unget_wch.o ../objects/lib_vid_attr.o ../objects/lib_vline_set.o ../objects/lib_wacs.o ../objects/lib_wunctrl.o ../objects/expanded.o ../objects/legacy_coding.o ../objects/lib_dft_fgbg.o ../objects/lib_print.o ../objects/resizeterm.o ../objects/wresize.o ../objects/access.o ../objects/add_tries.o ../objects/alloc_entry.o ../objects/alloc_ttype.o ../objects/captoinfo.o ../objects/codes.o ../objects/comp_captab.o ../objects/comp_error.o ../objects/comp_expand.o ../objects/comp_hash.o ../objects/comp_parse.o ../objects/comp_scan.o ../objects/db_iterator.o ../objects/doalloc.o ../objects/fallback.o ../objects/free_ttype.o ../objects/getenv_num.o ../objects/home_terminfo.o ../objects/init_keytry.o ../objects/lib_acs.o ../objects/lib_baudrate.o ../objects/lib_cur_term.o ../objects/lib_data.o ../objects/lib_has_cap.o ../objects/lib_kernel.o ../objects/lib_keyname.o ../objects/lib_longname.o ../objects/lib_napms.o ../objects/lib_options.o ../objects/lib_raw.o ../objects/lib_setup.o ../objects/lib_termcap.o ../objects/lib_termname.o ../objects/lib_tgoto.o ../objects/lib_ti.o ../objects/lib_tparm.o ../objects/lib_tputs.o ../objects/lib_trace.o ../objects/lib_ttyflags.o ../objects/lib_twait.o ../objects/name_match.o ../objects/names.o ../objects/parse_entry.o ../objects/read_entry.o ../objects/read_termcap.o ../objects/setbuf.o ../objects/strings.o ../objects/tries.o ../objects/trim_sgr0.o ../objects/unctrl.o ../objects/visbuf.o ../objects/write_entry.o ../objects/define_key.o ../objects/hashed_db.o ../objects/key_defined.o ../objects/keybound.o ../objects/keyok.o ../objects/version.o x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar: illegal option -- . Usage: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar [emulation options] [-]{dmpqrstx}[abcfilNoPsSuvV] [member-name] [count] archive-file file... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar -M [<mri-script] commands: d - delete file(s) from the archive m[ab] - move file(s) in the archive p - print file(s) found in the archive q[f] - quick append file(s) to the archive r[ab][f][u] - replace existing or insert new file(s) into the archive t - display contents of archive x[o] - extract file(s) from the archive command specific modifiers: [a] - put file(s) after [member-name] [b] - put file(s) before [member-name] (same as [i]) [N] - use instance [count] of name [f] - truncate inserted file names [P] - use full path names when matching [o] - preserve original dates [u] - only replace files that are newer than current archive contents generic modifiers: [c] - do not warn if the library had to be created [s] - create an archive index (cf. ranlib) [S] - do not build a symbol table [v] - be verbose [V] - display the version number @<file> - read options from <file> emulation options: No emulation specific options x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar: supported targets: elf64-x86-64 elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux efi-app-ia32 elf64-little elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex make[1]: *** [../lib/libncursesw.a] Error 1
This may be a dupe of bug #162875, but as your emerge --info is missing, there's no way of knowing. Please always provide it.
Sorry for not providing the info. This is `emerge --info` after I unmerged confcache, and I have just successfully merged ncurses. Portage 2.1.2-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19.2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19.2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.8 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19.2-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -m64 -Os -fmessage-length=0 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/shar e/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminf o /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mtune=athlon64 -m64 -Os -fmessage-length=0 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect confcache digest distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/lin ux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -l3.5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=30" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --de lete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi adns aim alsa amd64 ao apache2 arts audiofile bash-completion bcmath bitmap-fonts blas bon obo bzip2 cairo calendar caps cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups curl curlwrappers dbus dedicated dga dio directfb dlloader doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode esd evo examples exif exp at fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gb gcj gd geoip gif ginac glut gmp gnome gnutls gp hoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javasc ript jbig jikes jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility ladcca ladspa lapack lash lesstif libg++ libgda libsamplerate libwww lm_sensors mad maildir matroska mbox mcal memlimit mhash mikmod mime mmap mng mnogosearch mono motif mp3 mpeg mpla yer msn musepack ncurses nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ocaml ogg openal openexr opengl osc oscar pam pcre pdf perl p ic plotutils png portaudio posix postgres ppds pppd python qt3 quicktime readline reflection ruby sasl scanner sdl session sharedmem slang sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell sqlite sqlite3 ssl startup-notification svg symlink sysfs sysvipc tcpd test tetex theora threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l vc d videos vim-syntax vorbis wmf x264 xine xml xmlrpc xorg xpm xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 a tiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m m aestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softv ol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 l b216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
