ebuild fails during configure by virtue of terminfo not being detected in sys-libs/ncurses. Adding useflag "tinfo" to sys-libs/ncurses works as a temporary fix.
1) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment. 2) Please attach the entire build log to this bug report.
dev-lang/erlang should DEPEND/RDEPEND on sys-libs/ncurses anyhow.
Portage 2.2.14 (python 2.7.9-final-0, hardened/linux/amd64/selinux, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.15.10-hardened-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.15.10-hardened-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4700HQ_CPU_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16372296 total, 698836 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 06:15:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p53 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/perl: 5.18.2-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.7.9, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3-r1, 1.11.6-r1, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.16 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo 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I am unable to reproduce the bug. Regrettably I did not keep the original build output. I attempted a rebuild after removing the useflag for sys-libs/ncurses, unmerging the package dev-lang/erlang, and then doing a depclean. sys-libs/ncurses had been installed previously by other some other package(s). The only information I can provide is that the ./configure script of dev-lang/erlang failed to detect a tget<something> function in ncurses. It retried the check for other libraries which were not installed. After adding the useflag "tinfo" to sys-libs/ncurses, the emerge of dev-lang/erlang succeeded. Rebuilds continue to succeed.
Jeroen, what makes you say it should (R)DEPEND on ncurses anyhow?
No response to request for information, closing. Feel free to reopen if you think there is still an issue here.