Created attachment 335502 [details] build log ... checking for NCURSES... no configure: error: No package 'ncursesw' found. I saw this discussed upstream, if that helps: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=104247 And here, but no responses: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/26166
Created attachment 335504 [details] emerge --info
config.log could be useful, but did you try simply rebuilding ncurses (IIRC, for some reason at some point in time stage3 images were broken in this regard) ?
Sync your portage tree and emerge a recent enough version of ncurses. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 438922 ***
(In reply to comment #3) > Sync your portage tree and emerge a recent enough version of ncurses. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 438922 *** If vlc is dependent on a specific revision of ncurses, it ought to say that in the ebuild rather than force us all to guess which is "recent enough." Mind you, I did sync my portage tree immediately before attempting to update world, leading to the issue I reported, or we wouldn't be "here" in the first place. Synchronicity is a good thing.
So, does emerging ncurses again work? If you would like to limit the versions of the dependency, then feel free to bisect for us which versions of ncurses don't work together with vlc; perhaps it is only the one in that broken stage...
(In reply to comment #5) > So, does emerging ncurses again work? Yes. > If you would like to limit the versions of the dependency, then feel free to > bisect for us which versions of ncurses don't work together with vlc; > perhaps it is only the one in that broken stage... As suggested by https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438922#c17, a version bump for ncurses would help. One should not need to magically know to rebuild ncurses in the same revision level to avoid bugging out other builds.
