dialog can't emerge on ppc, fails looking for libncursesw. This lib seems to be provided by ncurses-5.4-r6 and up, all of which are masked for ppc (latest stable for ppc is ncurses-5.4-r5). Older versions of dialog are no longer in portage. =============================================================== emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/ppc/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.4.20-ppc-r3 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-ppc-r3 ppc 7400, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1,dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 31 2005, 16:08:20)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.2.3-r5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.4, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.3-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" 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 /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cscope cups dvd emboss esd fam font-server fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk imlib java jpeg motif mp3 ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam perl png ppc python readline sdl slang ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xml2 xprint xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS ============================================ emerge -u dialog ============= <snip>checking for -lncursesw in /usr/local/lib... no checking for -lncursesw in /usr/lib... no configure: error: Cannot link ncursesw library ============= Will attach config.log Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 55465 [details] config.log from emerge -u dialog
Rebuild the stable ncurses with unicode support then emerge dialog, it works fine here without bumping the stable version to 5.4-r6. If you still can't get it working, feel free to reopen the bug.
