Without this dependency, emerge gave error: /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ld: cannot find -labsl_log_internal_check_op: No such file or directory
Please attach a build log and provide emerge --info.
Created attachment 892025 [details] build.log
Created attachment 892026 [details] emerge --info
I can confirm the same issue - games-board/pokerth does not compile if dev-cpp/abseil-cpp is not installed. After installing abseil-cpp manually, pokerth compiles successfully. build.log and emerge --info provided.