/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -Wall -W -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -lpthread -lm -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -o conky conky-conf_cookie.o conky-audacious.o conky-linux.o conky-users.o conky-sony.o conky-i8k.o conky-libtcp-portmon.o conky-tcp-portmon.o conky-x11.o conky-fonts.o conky-ccurl_thread.o conky-rss.o conky-prss.o conky-llua.o conky-imlib2.o conky-iconv_tools.o conky-colours.o conky-combine.o conky-common.o conky-conky.o conky-core.o conky-diskio.o conky-entropy.o conky-exec.o conky-fs.o conky-mail.o conky-mixer.o conky-net_stat.o conky-template.o conky-timed_thread.o conky-mboxscan.o conky-read_tcp.o conky-scroll.o conky-specials.o conky-tailhead.o conky-temphelper.o conky-text_object.o conky-timeinfo.o conky-algebra.o conky-proc.o conky-user.o conky-top.o -lncurses -laudcore -laudgui -laudclient -ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lm -lX11 -lImlib2 -llua -lm -ltolua++ -lXext -lXdamage -lXfixes -lXft -lglib-2.0 -lcurl -lxml2 -lasound -ltolua++
libtool: link: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -Wall -W -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -o conky conky-conf_cookie.o conky-audacious.o conky-linux.o conky-users.o conky-sony.o conky-i8k.o conky-libtcp-portmon.o conky-tcp-portmon.o conky-x11.o conky-fonts.o conky-ccurl_thread.o conky-rss.o conky-prss.o conky-llua.o conky-imlib2.o conky-iconv_tools.o conky-colours.o conky-combine.o conky-common.o conky-conky.o conky-core.o conky-diskio.o conky-entropy.o conky-exec.o conky-fs.o conky-mail.o conky-mixer.o conky-net_stat.o conky-template.o conky-timed_thread.o conky-mboxscan.o conky-read_tcp.o conky-scroll.o conky-specials.o conky-tailhead.o conky-temphelper.o conky-text_object.o conky-timeinfo.o conky-algebra.o conky-proc.o conky-user.o conky-top.o -lpthread -Wl,--as-needed -lncurses -laudcore -laudgui -laudclient -ldbus-glib-1 -ldbus-1 -lgobject-2.0 -lX11 -lImlib2 /usr/lib64//liblua.so -lm -lXext -lXdamage -lXfixes -lXft -lglib-2.0 -lcurl -lxml2 -lasound -ltolua++ -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64/ -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/lib64/
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: conky-conky.o: undefined reference to symbol 'stdscr'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: note: 'stdscr' is defined in DSO /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib64/libtinfo.so.5: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [conky] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/portage/tmp/portage/app-admin/conky-1.9.0-r3/work/conky-1.9.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/portage/tmp/portage/app-admin/conky-1.9.0-r3/work/conky-1.9.0/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
This is because if ncurses is built with the terminfo option the curses library (libncurses) is built separately from the low-level terminfo library (libtinfo) and stdscr is defined in libtinfo but conky does not link against it.
This applies to conky 1.7.0 and the git version.