Compiling biew without gpm installed yields the following error: gcc -Wall -D__HAVE_PRAGMA_PACK__=1 -D__UNIX__ -D__OS__="unix" -Uunix -DHAVE_TERMINAL_OUT=1 -D_VT100_ -DHAVE_MOUSE -D__OS_NAME__='"Unix/VT100"' - D__MACHINE__=generic -D__CPU_NAME__='"generic"' -D__DEFAULT_DISASM=1 -fno-builtin -D__DISABLE_ASM -Os -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr - nopie -DNDEBUG=1 -I. -c biewlib/sysdep/generic/unix/mmfio.c -o biewlib/sysdep/generic/unix/mmfio.o biewlib/sysdep/generic/unix/keyboard.c:202:17: gpm.h: No such file or directory Installing gpm fixed this. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -C gpm; emerge biew Actual Results: see error above Expected Results: biew should pull in gpm as a dependency Portage 2.1.4.4 (hardened/amd64/multilib, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz Timestamp of tree: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:17:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=/etc/portage/rsync_excludes" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/portage/var-tmp-portage/" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/voip" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="16bit X a52 aac acl acpi aften alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb animgif audiofile bash-completion bcmath berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers dbm dbus dbx dga divx dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread dvi ecc enca encode extra-algorithms fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac flatfile ftp gif gimpprint glsa glut gmp gnome gnutls gpgme gphoto2 gps graphics gsm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal hardened humanities hyperwave-api iconv icq id3tag idea idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib innodb jack javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k justify latex libgda libsamplerate lm_sensors lzo mad maildir matroska mbox memlimit mikmod mime mmap mng modplug mozilla mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer multilib musepack mysql nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ntp nvtv nxclient offensive ogg openexr opengl pam pcntl pcre pdf pic pie plotutils png pnm posix postgres postproc postscript ppds prelude pstricks quicktime readline recode rss samba sdl sdl-sound session sharedmem sid slp smime sndfile sockets spell sse sse2 ssl svg syslog sysvipc szip tcpd theora threads tidy tiff truetype unicode urandom usb vcd vim-with-x vorbis wavpack wxwindows x264 xattr xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xrandr xsl xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 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 softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Fixed in CVS. Thanks for reporting this :)