checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

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!!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.5-r3 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1539:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 939:   Called src_compile
  ncurses-5.5-r3.ebuild, line 50:   Called do_compile
  ncurses-5.5-r3.ebuild, line 71:   Called econf '--libdir=/lib' '--with-terminfo-dirs=/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo' '--disable-termcap' '--with-shared' '--with-rcs-ids' '--without-ada' '--enable-symlinks' '--enable-const' '--with-chtype=long' '--with-mmask-t=long' '--with-manpage-format=normal' '--without-debug' '--without-gpm' '--without-trace'
  ebuild.sh, line 541:   Called die

!!! econf failed
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