> Let me know where to get the golded source in question and I will give it a
> go.

You can git clone golded from https://github.com/golded-plus/golded-plus.git

>> Gentoo builds ncurses with a "tinfo" use flag. That is not a
>> generally used flag and I am not sure if I can or should disable
>> it.

> Until we're sure what the real issue is I'd leave it alone.  LFS doesn't but
> if it turns out to need it then adding "--with-termlib=tinfo" might make all
> the difference.  That is what slackware does when building it's ncurses-6.3
> libs and apps.

I tried it just to see and I can't disable the tinfo keyword in gentoo, it completely disregards my wishes. Looking at "--with-termlib=tinfo" looks like slackware and gentoo are building ncurses the same way. There must be a different issue.

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