I started a stage 2 install on a amd64. It turns out that when I do emerge ncurses, it fails when callic tic to install terminfo. Output: cd test && make DESTDIR="/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image/" install make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/work/ncurses-5.4/test' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/work/ncurses-5.4/test' cd misc && make DESTDIR="/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image/" install make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/work/ncurses-5.4/misc' sh ./../mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image//usr/share/terminfo mkdir /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image/usr/share/terminfo sh ./../mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image//usr/share/tabset mkdir /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image/usr/share/tabset DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image/ \ prefix=/usr \ exec_prefix=/usr \ bindir=/usr/bin \ top_srcdir=.. \ srcdir=. \ datadir=/usr/share \ ticdir=/usr/share/terminfo \ source=../misc/terminfo.src \ THIS_CC="gcc" \ THAT_CC="gcc" \ sh ./run_tic.sh ** Building terminfo database, please wait... Running tic to install /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image//usr/share/terminfo ... You may see messages regarding unknown capabilities, e.g., AX. These are extended terminal capabilities which can be compiled using tic -x Read the INSTALL document before doing this - it can cause problems for older ncurses applications. tic: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ? tic could not build /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/image//usr/share/terminfo make[1]: *** [install.data] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/work/ncurses-5.4/misc' make: *** [install] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r5 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 87, Exitcode 2 !!! make install failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. emerge ncurses System uname: 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 242 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.6-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /usr/X11R6/bin/startx /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups directfb divx4linux doc dvd f77 fbconf flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg lzw lzw-tiff mime ming motif mozilla mpeg multilib mysql ncurses nls ntpl nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam perl php png python quicktime readline samba sdl session slang spell ssl tcpd tga tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales wmf xml xml2 xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib"
Using USE="-unicode" is unacceptable due to bug 74130
please attach a complete log, maybe there are errors earlier in the process
*** Bug 78313 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think problem in ncurses install procedure. Then user add into USE unicode flag then he having some big troubles. Some programs (I don't have any thinks why?) using not libncurses.so.(*) This program using libncursesw.so.(*). And then user delete unicode from USE and rebuild ncurses (but why? may be using emerge -e system ) he has trouble with this some programms. I think we may remove unicode flag from ncurses and always build ncurses with unicode. Or remove symlinks of libncurses.so.(*) and using only libncurses.so.(*) on unicode and on not unicode system. I think last way it's bad becouse we MUST rewriting some ebuilds.
David Li: you have to options, you can install the complete system with unicode or without unicode, but a mixture doesn't work, so please try again
