In my case (a non-gentoo) build system, I had specified rpath-link values that were causing the build not to find the new ncurses library. The fix was to make the the ncurses src/lib directory the first place the linker looked (LDFLAGS):
-Wl,-rpath-link,/path/to/ncurses_build_dir/lib
It was also necessary to specify
LDFLAGS="-L../lib $LDFLAGS"
In my case (a non-gentoo) build system, I had specified rpath-link values that
were causing the build not to find the new ncurses library. The fix was to
make the the ncurses src/lib directory the first place the linker looked
(LDFLAGS):
-Wl, -rpath- link,/path/ to/ncurses_ build_dir/ lib
It was also necessary to specify
LDFLAGS= "-L../lib $LDFLAGS"