gentoo-overlay/net-dialup/minicom/files/minicom-2.7-lockdir.patch

--- minicom-2.7.orig/configure.in	2013-12-31 07:14:09.000000000 -0800
+++ minicom-2.7/configure.in	2017-03-05 11:25:01.379020326 -0800
@@ -217,7 +217,10 @@
 
 if test "x$UUCPLOCK" != x
 then
-	if test -d $UUCPLOCK
+	dnl If a lock directory was manually specified, do not test it actually
+	dnl exists, as that might not be true during a chroot build, and the
+	dnl packager is responsible for making sure it exists at runtime.
+	if true
 	then
 		AC_MSG_RESULT($UUCPLOCK)
 		AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(UUCPLOCK, "$UUCPLOCK", [Lock directory])