Bug 55837

Summary:	Stage 1 bootstrap fails on ncurses-5.4-r1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Joe S <jskaggs>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	2004.1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Joe S 2004-07-01 16:47:15 UTC

During execution of Stage 1 install, /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh fails on ncurses 5.4-r1.  The last few lines echoed by bootstrap.sh are:

configure error: Shared libraries are not supported in this version

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r1 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 365, Exitcode 1.
!!! econf failed

Comment 1 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-02 06:13:41 UTC

I just had this happen as well with bootstrap-cascade.sh 
Basically what looks like is happening here is that ncurses is getting built 
to soon (ie portage resolves it to near top of it's list (before
binutils,libc,...)

Comment 2 Jim Nutt 2004-07-16 18:18:57 UTC

The problem appears to be that texinfo wants to use curses and gcc depends on texinfo

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-10-21 12:24:24 UTC

still a problem with 2004.3 and ncurses-5.4-r5 ?

if so, please re-open ;)