https://bugs.gentoo.org/522586 delete the -I$includedir paths that get added to CPPFLAGS. these are never needed when building natively or cross-compiling and really get in the way in both cases (upgrades/cross-compiling/etc...). extracted from the upstream change: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=9ee3995474454b7d956885e0fe5c8cac2ae25d42#patch5 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -18596,33 +18596,11 @@ CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I. -I../include" if test "$srcdir" != "."; then CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I\${srcdir}/../include" fi -if test "$GCC" != yes; then - CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I\${includedir}" -elif test "$includedir" != "/usr/include"; then - if test "$includedir" = '${prefix}/include' ; then - if test $prefix != /usr ; then - CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I\${includedir}" - fi - else - CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I\${includedir}" - fi -fi ACPPFLAGS="-I. -I../include -I../../include $ACPPFLAGS" if test "$srcdir" != "."; then ACPPFLAGS="-I\${srcdir}/../../include $ACPPFLAGS" fi -if test "$GCC" != yes; then - ACPPFLAGS="$ACPPFLAGS -I\${includedir}" -elif test "$includedir" != "/usr/include"; then - if test "$includedir" = '${prefix}/include' ; then - if test $prefix != /usr ; then - ACPPFLAGS="$ACPPFLAGS -I\${includedir}" - fi - else - ACPPFLAGS="$ACPPFLAGS -I\${includedir}" - fi -fi ### Build up pieces for makefile rules echo "$as_me:18628: checking default library suffix" >&5