Packages depending on sys-libs/ncurses fail with USE=tinfo

[[n00b@localhost]]

dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit-5.0.35-r1 and dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk-5.0.35-r1 were pulled in as part of my system updates earlier this week. Both require that sys-libs/ncurses is built with the tinfo USE flag set which separates the ncurses library into two parts: libncurses.so and libtinfo.so. This is causing most of my other packages that depend on ncurses to fail to compile as they can't find symbols from the other library.

The packages that fail are:
=sys-libs/readline-6.2_p1
=sys-apps/texinfo-4.13
=media-sound/lame-3.99.5
=dev-util/cmake-2.8.9
=sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8
=net-misc/telnet-bsd-1.2-r1
=app-misc/screen-4.0.3-r6
=dev-lang/ocaml-3.12.1

The symbols that they are looking for begin with "tget" (such as tgetent, etc.). These symbols are in libtinfo.so but not libncurses.so if it is built with the tinfo USE flag set.

Is there any way to get the packages to look for the symbols in the other library?

[ulenrich]

Probably if you /etc/portage/package.use
media-libs/opencv -cuda

after a rebuild you could
emerge --depclean dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit

It is just (not yet functoning) face recognition of digikam which will succeed some seconds earlier with this binary cuda package ....
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[[n00b@localhost]]

I don't have media-libs/opencv installed. I need nvidia-cuda-toolkit for work so it's in my world file.

After looking at the ebuild it seems that the CUDA debugger needs ncurses with the tinfo flag set. If I disable the debugger then I could fix the problem, but, again, I need the debugger for work.

[AranHase]

I'm facing the same problem here. After compiling "ncurses" with "timfo" flag, lots of others packages failed compilation as mentioned.

Any suggestion to fix it instead of removing the "debugger" flag from the "nvidia-cuda-toolkit" package?

[zirgo]

Just a report: I'm succesfully using the nvidia debugger 5.0.35 using the opensuse 12.1 package and didn't need to set tinfo useflag on ncurses. Distro is sabayon, all I needed to do is run the installer.

[khayyam]