somehow the GNOME 2.2 dependencies don't seem to be quite there yet. I already have an older emerge of gnome. I was trying to update this installation. when I was at work, at used emerge -f to download what I needed using our highspeed connection. when I tried to emerge gnome at home, it bombed in eog with the following error message: Eog.h:136:18: warning: no newline at end of file Eog.h:134:1: unterminated #if Eog.h:128:1: unterminated #if Eog.h:5:1: unterminated #ifndef Eog-skels.c:10: parse error before '*' token Eog-skels.c:19: parse error before ')' token Eog-skels.c:26: parse error before '*' token Eog-skels.c:30: parse error before ')' token Eog-skels.c:37: parse error before '*' token Eog-skels.c:40: parse error before '*' token Eog-skels.c:48: parse error before '*' token Eog-skels.c: In function `get_skel_small_GNOME_EOG_Image': Eog-skels.c:52: `opname' undeclared (first use in this function) .... after looking at the offending file, I guessed that I should attempt to emerge bonobo. I did this, then emerged eog with no trouble. so I guess that (1) there is a dependency missing for eog, (2) there is certainly a dependency missing for gnome (shouldn't it have WANTED to update bonobo? it certainly didn't download it, and didn't try to install it before getting to eog) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ahem... have an older gnome installation 2. try to emerge eog (for me this happened during an emerge of gnome for updating) 3. Actual Results: the emerge bombed Expected Results: it should have emerged bonobo (updated) first Portage 2.0.47-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile mysql X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl dvd" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
we use the lowest possible dep as specified by the package. This can be incorrect sometimes, but it's hardly our fault and we fix it and file a bug upstream if we find out. So you say you had to update libbonobo or did you update libbonoboui or even bonobo-activation, you don't mention exact details. gnome does btw update libbonobo to the latest version, you could've checked out the ebuild and seen for yourself. But the install order depends on other things, so it is possible that eog with an incorrect dep gets merged before libbonobo (which in this case isn't what we wanted).
don't be so defensive. I am reporting this issue to help improve gentoo's ebuilds. obviously, this is no longer an issue for me since I fixed it :-) I reported what I experienced as accurately as I could. I did not manually update libbonobo*, if I had I would have said so in my report. I am not sure whether bonobo-activation was updated prior to the problem I reported occured. I am however fairly sure that it was included in the list of packages that needed updating. I only manually emerged the bonobo package and then retried eog and then it worked. That's exactly what I reported. The problem occurred while I emerged gnome. I also stated that in my report. I mentioned all the details that I had. I know what I am doing. I have contributed ebuilds. There is a problem. I don't want to debug it, it wasn't that big a deal for me. It will be for others.
in case this is any help. I just noticed that libbonoboui just finished emerging. This is hours after the problem I reported. So I guess this dependency comes up rather late. No idea whether that's relevant, but you mentioned the library.
fixed the bonobo deps in 2.2.1 to be on the safe side.
