My initial "emerge -e system" failed while configuring dev-util/dialog. During bootstrap, ncurses is compiled without USE flag "unicode" but since I have "unicode" in my USE flag, I have to compile ncurses first with: emerge -O ncurses So ncurses is compiled with unicode flag and dialog is now able to link against a unicoded ncurses! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Bootstrap 2. Put "unicode" in your USE flag 3. emerge -e system Actual Results: The 'configure' step of dialog stop when checking against ncurses. Expected Results: Compile ncurses BEFORE dialog! At least when "unicode" USE flag is used
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67524 ***