Bugzilla Bug 153508

from configure:

checking for mcopidl... not found
configure: error: The important program mcopidl was not found!
Please check whether you installed aRts correctly or use
--without-arts to compile without aRts support (this will remove functionality

hydrogen@perdition:amarok-svn $ emerge -pv kfreeflight

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] games-simulation/kfreeflight-0.2.1_rc1  USE="-arts -debug
-xinerama" 0 kB

Portage 2.1.2_rc1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-ck1-r3-20061020 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.17-ck1-r3-20061020 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks noinfo parallel-fetch
sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/  http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf-8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=" "
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib
crypt cups curl dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd
fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipod ipv6
isdnlog java jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux ldap libg++ mad mikmod
mp3 mpeg musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png
ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl
ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU
video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs xine xml
xorg xv zeroconf zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

An additional note, EXTRA_ECONF="--without-arts" emerge kfreeflight works fine

(yes, I know its a badthing to do)

Should work now.
Please test and reopen if not.
Thanks

*** Bug 153767 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***