The dialog packages can not find the ncurses library headers during the execution of their configure scripts. The packages download and start the configure stage but then fail. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge dialog Actual Results: Configure gives an error message stating that it can not find ncurses include files. This happens in both the .9beta2002 and 2003 ebuilds. Expected Results: In the 2002 version I added the line cf_cv_curses_incdir="-I/usr/include" into the configure file and ran it again from the command line (ie "./configure "). This worked and I just did "make" and "make install" followed by an "emerge inject" to update the system. I was building Gentoo on a clean machine and so this was not an update nor were there any unusual non-Gentoo packages installed. I'm ranking this as Major since it prevents TeX and some other major items from building even though dialog is not a vital package in itself (in fact tetex will build fine if you remove the dependancy on dialog from its ebuild script: I've never actually needed the dialog system in five years of working in TeX).
Forget it: I gave up and re-installed and the problem went away. Something must have went wrong during the first install but what I don't know; almost certainly nothing to do with dialog. TW
