If USE is set to include GPM support, and you emerge aspell, it does not list sys-libs/gpm as a dependency, ./configure then fails as it is unable to find libgpm Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Both aspell-0.50.5-r4 and aspell-0.60.2 have this: DEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2 gpm? ( sys-libs/gpm )" I've just emerge aspell-0.60.2 fine with gpm in my use flag. Which version are you trying to emerge?
You're right. The people one the gentoo forums told me to submit a bug report after the config.log said libgpm wasn't there, but it would seem the problem lies elsewhere on my system. Sorry.
Ok no problem.