Well, it finally worked. �I just put -ncurses in the USE variable (I didn't 
have it in to begin with). �The reason I did that was I had filed a bug and 
misunderstood one of the responses and thought I had to put -ncurses in the 
USE variable. �Turns out that's not what he meant. �However, the system is 
past the bootstrap and emerging the system.  Who knows???

> I'm building from stage 1 on a PIII dual 933 system (after I figured out
> why it was so slow).  It works fine but twice in a row I've gotten an
> ncurses error that causes it to fail.  It's NOT caused by a failure to
> env-update/source ....
>
> The first time I did the build I did the env-update, source /etc/profile
> then set up make.conf and then scripts/bootstrap.sh in /usr/portage.   
> This build failed with the error
>
> configure: error C++ preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check"
> Error sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed.
> Function econf, line 14, exitcode 1
> econf failed
>
> So I env-updated, source /etc/profile and did a scripts/bootstrap.sh again.
>
> Exact same failure.
>
> Any ideas on what broke here?
>
> Thanks.

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