Bug 92890

Summary:	dev-util/dialog can not be built
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michal Hruska <michal.hruska>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	utf8 herd (RETIRED) <utf8>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michal Hruska 2005-05-17 04:01:29 UTC

I tried to emerge alsa-utils. One of the dependencies is dev-util/dialog which
can not be built due some error (link ncursesw library?).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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checking for ncursesw header in include-path... curses.h
checking for ncurses version... 5.4.20040208
checking for Gpm_Open in -lgpm... yes
checking for initscr in -lgpm... no
checking for initscr... no
checking for initscr in -lncursesw... no
checking for -lncursesw in /usr/local/lib... no
checking for -lncursesw in /usr/lib... no
configure: error: Cannot link ncursesw library

!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/dialog-1.0.20050206/work/dialog-1.0-20050206/config.log

!!! ERROR: dev-util/dialog-1.0.20050206 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0
!!! econf failed

Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-17 04:46:05 UTC

rebuild

Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-17 04:46:22 UTC

rebuild ncurses with unicode support

Comment 3 Alexander Simonov 2005-05-17 10:24:40 UTC

May be are you have ncurses without unicode support, but have unicode flag in 
USE variable.
Try rebuild or upgrade your ncurses library.