Am March 30, 2018 10:07:41 AM UTC schrieb Helmut Jarausch <[email protected]>: >Hi, >there are several packages which fail to link since they are missing >'-ltinfo' - recently >app-antivirus/clamav-0.99.4-r1 > >For a temporary fix I have edited the config.status file by changing > >S["CURSES_LIBS"]="-lncurses" >to >S["CURSES_LIBS"]="-lncurses -ltinfo" > >and using > >ebuild /usr/portage/app-antivirus/clamav/clamav-0.99.4-r1.ebuild merge > >But I think that this is a more general problem. > >Has anybody found a fix which works for several such packages? > >Many thanks for a hint, >Helmut
This are bugs in the build system of the package which is not detecting the separate library. You should file a bug about it. Is there a special requirement for building ncurses with tinfo? If not the easy fix is disabling the tinfo USE flag for ncurses. -- Best Regards Daniel

