This is exactly the same problem as bug# 74130. I believe that bug should be re-opened but since I can't re-open it, I'm opening a new one. I encountered the same problem this evening when I tried to emerge 'mirrorselect' on this machine. I last did an 'emerge -puDv world' to completion about 3 days ago. So this is an on-going problem. On the box where I ran into this problem, only 'mirrorselect' needs dialog. So, since I'm a mere English speaker, 'USE="-unicode" emerge dialog' is acceptable. Notice from my 'emerge info' that 'unicode' is set. It has been set since I built this machine from a stage 3 tarball. The implication is that 'ncurses', 'tic' etc needs to be rebuilt with unicode support as a dependency for 'dialog' when 'unicode' is set. Then again, what do I know. I'm just a dufus user. :-) Please feel free to close this if I'm totally off base here. Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Portage 2.0.51-r14 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Sep 30 2004, 03:23:40)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://206.75.217.181/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d accessibility alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux doc dvd dvdr encode esd ethereal f77 fam fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq imagemagic imlib innodb ipv6 jabber java jikes jpeg junit kde lcms lesstiff libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang speex spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb winf wxwindows xeo xinerama xml2 xmms xv yahoo zlib" Unset: LDFLAGS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74130 ***
