Ebuild does not contain instructions to include openssl on condition that ssl use flag is set whereas the package seems to require some openssl headers when OPT_SSL is set. This results in configuration step error configure: OPT_SSL: yes configure: OPENSSL_ENABLED: configure: error: --with-ssl was given but OpenSSL could not be detected Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try emerge net-misc/curl-7.72.0::gentoo without any flags but: gnutls, http2, ssl CURL_SSL_OPENSSL ABI_X86_64 Actual Results: Emerge fails at configuration step Expected Results: Emerge proceeds to compilation and succeeds. Portage 3.0.9 (python 3.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.32-r2, 5.4.80-gentoo-r1-compact-0.1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.80-gentoo-r1-compact-0.1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-5200U_CPU_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.7 KiB Mem: 16354640 total, 11005796 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:45:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: dfcd1083180e4c1966c39d4d9bee66071ea6e5f1 sh bash 5.0_p18 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.34 p6) 2.34.0 distcc 3.3.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] app-shells/bash: 5.0_p18::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.30.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 3.7.9::gentoo, 3.8.6::gentoo, 3.9.0::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.17.4-r1::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.20::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r5::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.2-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.34-r2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 9.3.0-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.3.2-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.4-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.32-r2::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes steam-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 50 youbroketheinternet location: /var/lib/layman/youbroketheinternet masters: gentoo priority: 50 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="@BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=haswell -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=haswell -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 6 --load-average 5" ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-march=haswell -O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distcc distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-march=haswell -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="https://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/linux/distributions/gentoo/gentoo/ rsync://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/gentoo/ https://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ https://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ https://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo https://gentoo.wheel.sk/" LANG="en_US" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j20 -l6" PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X alsa amd64 bluetooth cups dbus elogind gnutls libglvnd ncurses nls otf pam pulseaudio split-usr udev unicode" ABI_X86="64" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 pclmul popcnt sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput evdev" KERNEL="linux" L10N="ru fi" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= net-misc/curl-7.72.0::gentoo was built with the following: USE="gnutls http2 ssl -adns -alt-svc -brotli -ftp -gopher -idn -imap -ipv6 -kerberos -ldap -libressl -mbedtls -metalink (-nghttp3) -nss -openssl -pop3 -progress-meter (-quiche) -rtmp -samba -smtp -ssh -static-libs -telnet -test -tftp -threads (-winssl)" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" CURL_SSL="openssl -gnutls -libressl -mbedtls -nss (-winssl)" FEATURES="multilib-strict binpkg-docompress usersandbox unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs ipc-sandbox sfperms ebuild-locks binpkg-dostrip news userfetch protect-owned merge-sync distlocks config-protect-if-modified unmerge-orphans preserve-libs fixlafiles assume-digests pid-sandbox usersync strict parallel-fetch qa-unresolved-soname-deps userpriv network-sandbox sandbox binpkg-logs"
The full build.log would still be helpful to save time and in case this is a local issue.
I was unable to reproduce it several days later since the original report.
